Word: dicker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minister Aranha was planning to dicker, he has a good man to talk to. Chile's new Acting President Mendez has earned himself a notable reputation as a peacemaker and conciliator. When he entered national politics last year the squat, sallow, middle-aged doctor from Coquim-bo was nicknamed Don Geronimo el Anonimo. Recently he emerged from anonymity to the leadership of the turbulent Radical Party. He had not been a member of the Cabinet until last week when Don Tinto boosted him to the Ministry of the Interior so that he would be next in Presidential succession...
Several other processes for recovering alumina from clay have also been announced. TVA has been experimenting with one for the past five years (TIME, Sept. 23, 1940). If they work, bauxite can be crossed off the list of raw materials for which nations scheme, dicker, bicker, fight...
...order may serve one long-term purpose. This was the only aspect of the census that really frightened the big international camera-duckers: the U.S. might use it as a club in post-war negotiations. With assets physically under its jurisdiction, and so recorded under oath, the U.S. could dicker as to their release to their country of origin after the war; could if need be insist that they be invested in U.S. industry (rather than withdrawn in a deflationary period); could exact a tithe, a fifth, a half, as the price of safekeeping in a world where nothing...
...said that after the attack on Russia had reached the Urals (and the Germans had captured Leningrad, Moscow, Kiev and other great Russian centers) the Nazis would be willing to dicker for peace on the following basis...
...most of the leading New York newspapers and magazines had to pack up on a day's notice and flee with their office boys, private papers, and a few of the staff somewhere west of the Mississippi, where the Times and the Herald Tribune had to dicker with the Emporia Gazette to use its presses and become two-page Kansas locals; if the Mirror and LIFE, without photographs, came out in Utah; if the Post were seized and George Backer, its publisher, and Dorothy Thompson were put in a concentration camp in the Catskills; if the Christian Science Monitor...