Word: thaws
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...heirs promise a thaw-but how warm, and for how long...
...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...
...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...