Word: dicker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile at Angora, the Turkish capital, Sir Ronald Lindsay continued to negotiate the dicker with Turkey, on the basis of which the Anglo-Irak treaty may or may not go into effect without blood-spilling in Mosul. Sir Austen declared last week that this exalted chaffering and higgling are still going forward in "friendly" fashion...
...will see that." And the London Times might grumble: "Reduced to simple mathematical terms, the agreement represents the cancellation of approximately six-sevenths of the Italian war debt to this country." But basically these two newspapers and a majority of the international press concurred in declaring the Volpi-Churchill dicker sound...
...Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Chancellor of the British Exchequer. A sleek, bearded Latin and an expansive, rubicund Briton. The most powerful self-made Italian industrialist, and the most genial onetime First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty. Such were the two completely antithetical statesmen who sat down to dicker over a settlement of the Anglo-Italian debt, in London, last week. What they said to each other naturally remained a diplomatic secret. But the two sets of public opinion between which they were expected to compromise have been made clear by the Italian and British press for some months past...