Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...host of the conference, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, said that he did not expect a "rapid thaw" in the superpower chill but he could at least foresee "some cautious melting." The Shultz and Gromyko meeting in Stockholm seemed too tentative to serve as a reliable marker on the road back to a warmer U.S.-Soviet climate. But more warmth is wanted...
...whether the Warsaw Pact nations distract the conference with propaganda blasts against the new NATO missiles or high-sounding but insubstantial "declaratory proposals" against aggression. In a press conference for Europeans last week, Shultz warned against expecting immediate improve ments in Soviet-American relations. "We are prepared for a thaw," he said, "but whether there is one will reflect what the desires of the Soviet Union are. It takes two to thaw...
...biggest for a while: temperatures remain well below freezing, and underneath some of the barges 15-foot-to-20-foot ice buildups have sprouted that will take longer to thaw than the river. Predicts Wills: "The tows will be here till spring...
...Mars, so we shall have to exist together on one planet," Khrushchev said during a visit to India in 1955. As he dismantled Stalin's apparatus of terror at home, the Soviets took their own word for the period from the title of a popular novel: The Thaw. The withdrawal of Soviet occupation forces (along with those of the Western allies) from Austria in 1955 seemed to belie the postwar axiom that Communists never give up any territory they hold. In an equally auspicious sign of improved East-West relations, Eisenhower traveled to a Geneva summit that year...
...cold winter indeed for the Crimson icemen, and the forecast shows no thaw in sight. Gone are the Sheehys. The Olsons The Fuscos...