Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Going It Alone. As early as last February, weather bureau experts predicted floods because of the massive Canadian snow packs dissolving with the spring thaw. To try to protect at least some of the area, state and Federal Government agencies joined together to form Operation Foresight, an $18 million emergency effort. Under it, the Army Corps of Engineers produced 183 linear miles of dikes and assisted 283 communities with their flood preparations. The engineers distributed pumps and more than 10 million sandbags and used vast numbers of construction equipment. Even with its limited means, the program successfully prevented an estimated...
...Fanning and a squad of ushers were frantically setting up 6,000 folding chairs. They should have given one to the catchers. Mired in muck up to their ankles, their position was the sloppiest on a field that had been turned into a lumpy, bumpy pasture by the spring thaw. During the day the pitcher's mound sank by a good five inches. Expo Catcher Bateman only half kiddingly suggested that he and the pitchers "wear elevator shoes to stay above ground...
Relations between the BBC and No. 10 Downing Street could hardly have been characterized as cordial in recent years. But last week there were signs of a thaw between the Harold Wilsons and "Auntie." First, the PM was featured in a friendly BBC radio interview in which he reminisced about his 25 years in politics. Next day, Mary Wilson was on a program which centers around what to save in case of shipwreck. Each celebrated castaway is allowed one book, eight records and one luxury. Mary Wilson's book: Wuthering Heights. Her records: selections ranging from Faust to English...
...Many of the Russian records, according to Harrison Salisbury, an assistant managing editor of the New York Times, were destroyed or suppressed by Stalin, "as in Orwell's 'memory hole.' " Years of contacts in Russia, where he served six years as a reporter, and the information thaw that set in after Stalin's death, finally permitted Salisbury to accumulate the records, diaries and interviews from which he shaped this massive and horrifying account...
Shriver's personality has helped in his new diplomacy, but he was also fortunate to arrive at the time of a new detente cordiale between the U.S. and France. Chip Bohlen, Shriver's predecessor, got along well enough with De Gaulle personally. But official relations began to thaw only after President Johnson restricted the bombing of North Viet Nam in March. De Gaulle hailed that as "an act of reason and political courage." The general was no less pleased with the choice of Paris as the site for the Washington-Hanoi negotiations. Then came France...