Word: thaws
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...resumed direct, daily commercial flights for the first time in almost 60 years, ending the need for travelers to add hours to their trip by changing planes. The flights--as well as direct ship traffic--are seen as a result of Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou's work to thaw relations with Beijing...
Fifty-five years ago, sex went mainstream. Since debuting in December 1953 with a snapshot of Marilyn Monroe gracing its cover, Hugh Hefner's Playboy helped thaw America's once-frigid attitude toward human sexuality. Playboy remains the genre's big kahuna, and its stew of titillating photo spreads, risqué party jokes and, yes, interesting articles was the original recipe for success in the pornographic magazine business. But the strange, seamy history of smut on paper neither began nor ended with Hef's brainchild...
...artistic thaw didn't begin until the 1970s, as warming relations between the U.S. and China made cultural exchanges possible, including visits by the Philadelphia Symphony in 1973 and violinist Isaac Stern in 1979. That fired the musical interests of the Chinese at the same time the country's domestic policies were boosting music in other, unintended ways. Even during the Cultural Revolution, there was a need for musicians who could play the approved political operas; young people clamored to land those jobs, if only because that would permit them to remain in the city, rather than being sent...
...losing the presidential election to President Bill Clinton and he knew it, so he decided to end his campaign in style, thaw his icy relationship with the press, and start having fun. "He'd rumble back to the back of the plane, and we'd hear the laughter up in the front," remembers Sheila Burke, Dole's former chief of staff. "There was a looseness about...
...McCain's staff continues to point to public polling data that shows any glimmer of hope. There are no winks or nods on the campaign bus suggesting the race has been lost. There has been no thaw in McCain's frosty relationship with his traveling press. "We are not just flying around the country for the hell of it," says Mark Salter, one of McCain's closest advisers. "This is a winnable race. We feel we've been gaining since Thursday and we can catch him by Tuesday...