Word: thaws
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...Moscow had seized the Baltic states as part of a carve-up of Eastern Europe provided for by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Even the massive German invasion seemed, paradoxically, to promise an end to Stalin's dictatorship. Russians began to hope that victory over Hitler would bring a political thaw at home after the brutality of the 1930s. They were quickly disillusioned. With victory, repression returned. Hundreds of thousands of returning pows were sent straight to the Gulag for the crime of being captured by the Germans. There's another kind of ambivalence about V-E day in those states...
...Many conservative Japanese politicians and policy experts express dismay over what they perceive to be China's cynical harboring of historical grievances for political gain. They claim that despite the mild thaw last week, China is, by its own choice, virtually unappeasable. Tomohiko Taniguchi, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., says, "You're looking at a neighbor who doesn't want to accept any apology." Despite Koizumi's words of contrition last weekend (which, according to some counts, would mark the 22nd time Japan has apologized) and the $35 billion of foreign aid Japan has given...
Without warning, the fickle thermostat that governs Middle East diplomacy seemed to click from freeze to thaw last week. Conciliatory messages about the prospects for peace floated back and forth between the leaders of Israel and Jordan. Top-ranking officials of Syria, Jordan and Egypt met in various locales to focus their efforts on uncharacteristic unity rather than on their sometimes murderous differences. Even members of Yasser Arafat's Tunis-based Palestine Liberation Organization seemed to be caught up in the wave of regional fence mending as they tried to woo the support of members of rival P.L.O. factions...
...install. We understand that the installation could not be completed during the winter due to the impracticality of excavating frozen ground to connect phone lines, but the phones should have been ready to install far before late last fall. Gropers don’t wait for the ground to thaw...
Madame Butterfly may not spring to mind for most Harvard students enjoying the Cambridge thaw, but for the increasing number of students participating in student opera, Puccini’s “Tutta La Primavera” is the sweetest spring song...