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  • Thaws in the Soviet-American Cold War were accompanied by major loan exhibitions from Soviet museums, and changes in political climates have often generated other such projects.

    What Is Lost When Works are Trophies 2010

  • He planned to open it with Harry Thaws killing of the architect Stanford White in 1906 and end with the first O. J. Simpson trial in 1995.

    Just Take My Heart Mary Higgins Clark 2009

  • After nearly 40 years of collecting, the Thaws may be selecting works to fill gaps in their existing holdings -- yet whatever the motivation, there has been no shortage of stunning works acquired since 2002: The 19th-century German master Adolph Menzel's economical, ethereally stroked "Standing Young Man," back turned to the viewer, is an image that both compels us and seems to retreat from our gaze.

    Thanks to One Couple's Passion 2009

  • ~ Polar Bears at Risk as Warming Thaws Icy Home -- Time may be running out for polar bears as global warming melts the ice beneath their paws.

    Speedlinking 5/21/07 William Harryman 2007

  • There's a news item going the rounds, As Ice Thaws, Arctic Peoples at a Loss for Words.

    Archive 2004-11-01 Ray Girvan 2004

  • There's a news item going the rounds, As Ice Thaws, Arctic Peoples at a Loss for Words.

    As ice thaws, critical analysis of soundbites dwindles Ray Girvan 2004

  • SIXTEEN Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and wilde, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile, all else deep snow and ice.

    Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

  • It is to these knight-errants -- very many of them boys and girls in years -- to the Mrs. Whartons, the Alan Seegers, the Hoovers and the Thaws that I attribute America's eager acceptance of Calvary, when at last it was offered to her by her Statesmen.

    Out To Win The Story of America in France Coningsby Dawson 1921

  • Beyond this flood a frozen Continent Lies dark and wilde, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail; which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian bay Betwixt Damiata and

    The Captives Hugh Walpole 1912

  • Is it a free-for-all we're mixed up in -- with our Harry Thaws and our Helen Kellers; our white slavers, our white hopes, and our white plague campaigns; our trunk murders, and our fire heroes?

    Shorty McCabe on the Job Sewell Ford 1907

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