Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...route covers mountainous regions where there have been earthquakes, and broad areas of permafrost and innumerable bogs where the ground heaves during the short summer thaw; pressure tests of the Siberian soil are conducted at an underground Permafrost Institute at Yakutsk. Some 3,700 bridges and culverts must be built across rivers and streams. Subway experts from Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev have helped drill tunnels (one of them 9.5 miles long) through seven mountain ranges...
...heirs promise a thaw-but how warm, and for how long...
...described the greater freedom that the new constitution will permit within China in terms that eerily echoed Mao's 1956 campaign "to let a hundred flowers bloom," an invitation rescinded when it produced unexpectedly virulent criticism of the government. Yet there have been many signs that the limited thaw the new regime has signaled is genuine. The new constitution would restore the so-called office of the procuracy, which before its abolition in 1975 was responsible for screening evidence before prosecutions could be brought. Before convicting an offender, said a finger-wagging article in the party journal Red Flag...
...thaw includes the arts as well...
...well prepared as possible for the thaw and rain, Marciano said. On Wednesday almost every available worker was out clearing ice and snow from the drains around campus, he added...