Word: barter
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...Budapest came a bizarre proposal from the Communists. They wanted to exchange a British "spy" imprisoned in Hungary for a woman guerrilla leader facing the gallows in Malaya. Rarely has Russian diplomacy so blatantly acknowledged its real control over Communists everywhere. The barter proposal showed how fast, when the Reds want to make a deal, they cynically drop the pretense of a rebel band of local "patriots'" fighting "colonialism" in Malaya, or of a "People's Republic" having a genuine claim to sovereignty in Hungary. The principals in this cold war barter...
...amendment, so say its backers, would guarantee civil rights by specifically hoisting the Constitution above treaty law. In ending the executive agreement, which is a formal understanding not submitted for ratification, Bricker hopes to safeguard the public weal from presidential barter...
...Juan Perón is not planning his first presidential trip outside the country merely to barter with a neighbor. Like Perón himself, Chile's new President is in favor of forming a Latin American economic bloc to give Latinos a better bargaining position in exchanging their raw materials for U.S. manufactured goods. Perón hopes to reach a firm understanding with Ibáñez, then sign up other republics...
...auburn-haired Actress Booth, shiftlessly waddling around and prattling away endlessly in a singsong voice, does a highly skillful job of bringing the gabby, good-natured, slatternly Lola to life. For her stage portrayal of Lola, Shirley Booth won five awards (New York Drama Critics Circle, Newspaper Guild, Donaldson, Barter, Antoinette Perry). Her screen characterization may yet win her a sixth: an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oscar, for which she is already being enthusiastically boomed...
...same sort of barter and trade with the rest of the University takes place among Littauer's student body. Of the 100 students presently in the school, the majority are merely picking up Littauer's Master of Public Administration degree on their way to bigger things. Littauer shares them with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where they are candidates for that School's notoriously complicated "Joint Degree" in Political Economy and Government. Essentially, this "joint degree" program is a limbo for social science students dwell in while they decide whether to teach or go into government...