Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more he spoke, the less he seemed to accomplish. He was frozen out by the Southern barons, who considered him a scandal. Eventually came the thaw. Georgia Senator Richard Russell called him a "damn fool," but any fool could learn, apparently, if he was tutored by Russell. Humphrey was also coached by that master strategist of the possible, Lyndon Johnson, who saw in the fiery freshman a possible avenue to the liberal support he needed in his quest for the presidency. It was a useful alliance on both sides, and it led to the vice presidency for Humphrey...
...being snubbed by President Lyndon Johnson, who thought he had leaked a story to the press. "I'm the living example that a man can be in the deep freeze for at least two weeks and still live. But then he'd give you that quick thaw. A wink with one of those eyes was just like two cymbals coming together in a clash. He'd forgiven me in one flick of the eyelid...
Then he started to play on the prison's beat-up piano. As the glow of the gospel music touched the audience of disheveled, jean-clad and self-segregated men-blacks seated on the left, whites on the right, Chicanos in front-they began to thaw. Black prisoners started to sway, clap their hands rhythmically and shout an occasional hallelujah. One white inmate drummed his tattooed fingers and pulled at a diamond ornamentally embedded in his ear lobe...
What is perhaps most encouraging is the apparent lack of direct big-power involvement in the current thaw. The Soviet Union, which will not attend the Cairo talks, is being negative, and the United States, apparently taken by surprise, should support this first step forward as much as possible...
...U.S.S.R. does not have nearly a good enough road network to support even the relatively small number of cars already on the highway. Most of the 860,000 miles of highways are poorly graded and/or potholed; 90% of the system is unpaved. During the spring thaw, fully 70% of the entire network becomes an impassable river of mud. According to Pravda, 40,000 miles of new roads must be built or improved by 1980, but road construction is still lagging far behind the rate of increase in traffic...