Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Point Fourlike economic-development projects like the Colombo Plan to the training of Afro-Asian technicians in Canada and Australia for fighting disease in equatorial jungles. In the Korean war Commonwealth members fought together in a single division. A news correspondent may send messages between Commonwealth nations at a bargain 1 1/7?a word...
...only give in Khrushchev's speech was purely illusory: he still insisted that the Western powers must withdraw their troops from Berlin, but professed willingness to bargain over the deadline date. Delivering this "great new plan" to the Western foreign ministers in Geneva, dour Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko suggested that Moscow might be willing to wait as long as 18 months, instead of a year. Either way it was an ultimatum, though Gromyko quibbled at calling it that. At this bleak point, 41 days after they had first assembled in Geneva, the Big Four foreign ministers at last...
Last week, in a long-awaited "counter-proposal," Gromyko made it clear that Russia had no interest in such a bargain. Instead, he brazenly announced that Moscow would "grant" the Western powers one more year of occupation rights in Berlin-provided they would reduce their forces in West Berlin to "symbolic" levels (about 50 from each nation), would liquidate all anti-Communist propaganda and espionage organizations in the city, and would agree, when the year was up, to accept an all-German committee (equal membership on both sides) to talk about "reunification." In a final burst of arrogance, Gromyko added...
...dresses like a color-blind D.P. from Dogpatch. She claims to comb her scraggle-cropped, copper-colored hair with an eggbeater, but in fact usually attacks it only with her fingers. Her income has grown to six figures, but she haunts bargain counters, a born haggler. She handles her car like a hopped-up hot-rodder, laces into the Los Angeles freeway competition with the voice and free-wheeling vocabulary of a longshoreman...
Would such a bargain justify a summit meeting? The British, most eager of all the Westerners to promote summit talks, had a further suggestion-let the final Geneva communique also report "mutual interest" in such problems as disarmament and nonaggression pacts-a ceremonious way of simply reaffirming that problems exist, even if solutions...