Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors set the room temperature at 68° to thaw her out. They injected plasma for shock. Dr. Laufman gave her 200 milligrams of cortisone. "I still don't know if it did any good," he says, "but her temperature started to rise at a sharp rate." At 3 :30 p.m. it was 77°, at 8 p.m. 86°, and her pulse and respiration were almost normal. Johnny woke up, opened her eyes and said: "I'm cold...
Green and Murray also thought that John L. Lewis, bitter foe of the Administration, was getting preferential treatment. Their evidence: last week the Government thawed out its wage freeze to permit Lewis' coal miners to get a $1.60-a-day raise under their new contract signed before the freeze deadline (a coal price boost of 25? to 90? a ton was also permitted). Lewis, said Green and Murray, was now one wage round ahead of the A.F.L. and C.I.O. But the stabilizers had a soothing answer to that. They were hard at work on a general wage thaw...
Next day there was a thaw, gooey mud and another sharp fight for ancient, ruined Suwon. After a go-minute battle, the Chinese were driven out and the town pronounced "secure." Suwon itself was not an important objective; the Americans just wanted to deny it to the enemy as a staging base...
What Do You Expect? In Akron, Ohio last week Hildy proved that she could thaw her audience (paying a top of $3.50) even in the frigid atmosphere of an armory. Flitting from microphone to piano in front of her band, combing her upswept hairdo with both hands (an act which once caused a West Coast wag to nickname her "Miss Armpits"), Hildy got them all right into the act as usual...
...Late Thaw. California orange growers are still out in the cold, because their production costs are too high to compete. But California lemon growers, who raise half the world's supply (lemons don't grow well in Florida), have started to cash in. This year the industry froze 2,000,000 gallons of lemon juice, expects to put up 10 million gallons next year...