The day before the tour many Dutch flock to Leeuwarden to enjoy the party atmosphere that surrounds the event ; that evening, called the " Nacht van Leeuwarden " ( Night of Leeuwarden ), becomes a giant city-wide street party ( Frisians, who have a reputation of surliness, are said to thaw when it freezes ).

There was a thaw in 1983 when Metzenbaum endorsed Glenn for president and again in 1988 when Metzenbaum was opposed for re-election by Cleveland mayor George Voinovich.

One man was killed during tunnel construction when he attempted to thaw frozen dynamite which exploded when he set it near a fire.

It has its highest flows when the mountain snow melts during the spring thaw.

On the other hand, Yaroslavl can also experience positive temperatures during this time of the year ( for example, in 1932, when a thaw lasted for seventeen days of January ).

They try to thaw the inside of the spacecraft with a thermite charge, but end up accidentally destroying it when the ship's magnesium hull is ignited by the charge.

* In Colonial New England and New York, Indian Summer referred only to a January thaw, when American Indian raiding parties could be expected in the western and northern areas: the ground had briefly lost its snow cover so tracking the Native American raiders back to their winter camps was much more difficult for the Colonials.

The worst was that this disaster came only a few years on the heels of unexpected flooding caused by the spring thaw of March 1888 that had turned the Küddow into a raging river, when many people were forced to use rowboats to navigate the streets.

The tripod is connected to an on-shore clock that stops when the tripod begins to move during the spring thaw.

In the novel the spring thaw comes to represent a period of change in the characters ' emotional journeys, and when the wife eventually leaves her husband this coincides with the melting of the snow.

His under-aged daughter was arrested when she reached adult age and remained in the camps until the Khrushchev thaw.

There was a thaw in 1983 when Metzenbaum endorsed Glenn for president.

This ice had built up in the shafts during a period of exceptionally cold weather, and then fell into the tunnel when warmer weather started to thaw the ice.

Due to the position of Uelen by the sea coast there are also many instances of fog and mist per year with the result that sunshine hours are very low especially when the adjacent ocean begins to thaw.

However, when spring comes the words " thaw " and one can hear everything that was said months ago.

Used in arctic coastal regions during " rasputitsa " or great spring thaw, when ice hinders boats and cannot support ground vehicles, it is a low cost alternate to air-cushion vehicles and helicopters and capable of rescue operations in weather conditions well beyond their safety limits.

Traveling by snowshoe, they were overtaken by a spring thaw when they reached the lake.

The nine bishops and many of the clergy died in prisons, concentration camps, internal exile, or soon after their release during the post-Stalin thaw, but after 18 years of imprisonment and persecution, Metropolitan Slipyj was released when Pope John XXIII intervened on his behalf.

His frozen emotions eventually thaw when Amir reminisces about Hassan and kites.

In the winter of 1990, Gloucester saw its worst snow in a century and when the thaw came the River Severn overwhelmed all the local flood plains.

Más y Menos thaw out all of the Titans when reinforcements arrive.

Transporting these heavy slate products was difficult in any weather, and became nearly impossible when spring thaw turned the roads to slush and mud.

I used to go with Watson to call on the eminent neurologist at his apartment, to sit among the doctor's excellent collection of statues, paintings, and books and drink Oriental coffee while Watson seemed to thaw out and become almost affable.

Insects there were on the world, but they were frozen solid during the night, only to revive and thaw in the morning sun.

In spring, the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Bothnia normally thaw during in late April, with some ice ridges persisting until May in the eastern extremities of the Gulf of Finland.

The archipelago was formed during the thaw after the latest ice age.

In the early stages of European colonization in northeastern North America, indigenous peoples showed the arriving colonists how to tap the trunks of certain types of maples during the spring thaw to harvest the sap.

Flooding and landslides sometimes occur during the annual Spring thaw.

There is evidence of human habitation in the caves at Cheddar Gorge 10, 000 – 11, 000 years BC, during a partial thaw in the ice age.

Strong freeze thaw cycles result in the formation of surface crusts during the night, and the formation of unstable surface snow during the day.

The phrase ' Beijing Spring ' was also used during a more recent period of political thaw in the PRC, September 1997 to mid November 1998.

The production has also been assisted by other technological inventions in the form of electrical lighting driven by portable generators ( to assist harvest in the cold hours of morning darkness, before the grapes thaw ), remotely controlled temperature alarms ( after a re-thawing the grapes will spoil very quickly since ice crystals will have destroyed the cell walls ; thus the harvest has to be completed within a few hours on the first morning that is cold enough ) and plastic films that are used for " packaging " the vines during the waiting period between ripeness and first frost, in order to protect the ripe grapes from being eaten by birds.

It is thus closed during the time of freeze-up ( roughly late-October to mid-December ), for ice to form and allow ice bridges, and thaw ( roughly mid-May to mid-June ) to allow the ferry to run.

They rarely catch fish during the spawning season, but will eat many during the spring thaw.

Yang visited the Chinese mainland in 1971 for the first time after the thaw in China – US relations, and has subsequently made great efforts to help the Chinese physics community to rebuild the research atmosphere which was destroyed by the radical political movements during the Cultural Revolution.

For many years the Lielupe would frequently overflow its shallow banks and flood surrounding fields and villages, particularly during the spring thaw.

It was found helpful to rest and feed the animals well before releasing them in prime condition during the spring thaw.

Some jurisdictions pass frost laws to reduce the allowable weight of trucks during the spring thaw season and protect their roads.

He also served from 1980 in Cairo, Egypt, during the thaw period that ended with the 1982 Lebanon War.

In the 19th century, the Chickahominy was bordered in many places by swampy forests, which during heavy rains and spring thaw were covered with water as to be almost impassable.

As Data and Dr. Crusher work to thaw the cryonic survivors, Picard admonishes Data for bringing them aboard during a crucial time, and puts Riker in charge of them.

In 1990 during a thaw in diplomatic relations Cerezo invited the noted Russian linguist and epigrapher Yuri Knorozov to Guatemala to present him with a medal.