Word: thawed
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Everyone gets through the arctic morning, huddling in blankets and blowing on fingers. The sun joins the party after lunch, and the audience, by now a fairly good lawnful ("Round it off to 4,000," says Morse with a promoter's optimism), begins to thaw out. There is a lot of good-natured yah-HOOOOing when one of the contestants gives a good down-home rendition of Whisky Before Breakfast or Chinese Breakdown. Dancers weave among the lawn chairs. A beery college boy with a painted face gyrates for a while and then collapses, to rise no more...
...father of Egypt," singlehandedly made peace with the hated enemy. Such debate is in the end irrelevant, for Sadat's journey, his ultimate quest, stands as one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. This fact cannot be overstated, for in one deft move, Sadat put a thaw to a seemingly rock-solid antagonism...
...languorous beauty and a former Gibson Girl, Evelyn Nesbit was dubbed "the girl in the red velvet swing" But she swung a little too much, and her dalliance with Stanford White prompted her husband, Millionaire Socialite Harry K. Thaw, to murder the celebrated architect during a musical-comedy performance on the roof garden atop the White-designed old Madison Square Garden. For the film adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's fictive replay, Ragtime, Director Milos Forman, 49, interviewed hundreds for the part of Nesbit, then settled on Elizabeth McGovern, 20, after he saw her in Ordinary People. The young actress...
...such linkage, stressing that future Soviet actions-most notably in Poland-are of greater concern than past excesses like the invasion of Afghanistan. One thrust of the paper is that if the Soviet Union does not move militarily into Poland and stops stirring up trouble elsewhere, a new thaw between Washington and Moscow might yet be possible, despite the stridency of the Administration's anti-Soviet rhetoric...
...four years later the party accepted the Socialists' idea of a Common Program. During that period of thaw, the P.C.F. dropped the notion of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" from its charter. As the Socialists increased in popularity, the Communists recoiled in envy. The Common Program fell apart prior to the 1978 legislative elections. Some old Communist habits made a comeback: the P.C.F. was the only Western European Communist party, for example, to endorse the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...