Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctor's office. The patient is told to fix his gaze on a distant object. Then, while his eyelid is held open, the icy tip of the pencil-size probe is applied to every part of the diseased section for seven seconds at a time. The area is thawed each time with a salt solution to unstick the probe and eye, which freeze together after the fashion of a finger on an ice tray. After the thaw, the entire procedure is repeated twice more. In early cases, the eye should regain its normal luster in four days, with little...
...contemporaries described him variously as a Red Hitler and a Jolly St. Nik, a shoe banger and a shrewd geo-politician. Before his ouster in 1964 by less colorful but more pragmatic men, Khrushchev had justified at least some of those descriptions: he denounced Stalin and initiated the cultural thaw in Soviet life; he built the Berlin Wall and wisely backed down from the Cuban missile crisis after rashly getting into it; most important, he allowed the Soviet economy to become consumer oriented, a process that has begun to alter the very nature of Marxism...
Hampered by an unusually late thaw this month, the Crimson is "scrambling to make up for lost time," according to Parker...
Detente, however, has not been brought about in a straight way. We have seen many ups-and-downs and zig-zags on the path to the present thaw in the cold war. But in trudging laboriously along the difficult and dangerous way to equilibrium, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. came to learn to accommodate themselves with the status quo rather than seek abrupt changes in the balance of power. They seemed to have realized that accommodation with each other is to their common interest...
Zagarelle added that although Red-baiting still exists in the universities, the frost is beginning to thaw. The consequences of "going public" are not as formidable as they used to be, he said...