Word: dicker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.S.R. will not even dicker with the Western powers, said the note, unless the West abandons the European Army plan, dismantles the NATO alliance and the global network of air and naval bases. There will be no chance of bargaining, the note added, unless the West agrees to include Red China...
Dream Wife (MGM) is a merry little barbecue of Adam's Rib. When the lights go down, Gary Grant comes up looking shy, eligible and enormously wealthy as a big U.S. importer who has dropped in on a Middle Eastern oil kingdom to make a dicker of some vague sort. While at the Bukistanian court, Importer Grant spots an item he would love to pay duty on: the Khan's sexy daughter, Princess Tarji (Betta St. John...
...Bonn, "has spread confusion and fear in the ranks of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's government coalition." If the Russians can lessen West Germany's healthy skepticism, Adenauer might lose an election to the West German Social Democrats, who are not as adamant as he in refusing to dicker with the Communists. Adenauer also fears that the Russian moves might lead to Big Four negotiations over Germany, in which the Germans would have no voice. "Bismarck," he said, "spoke of his nightmare of a foreign coalition against Germany. I also have a nightmare. Its name is Potsdam." He demanded...
...appeared to be a demand for $505 .million in unreported foreign exchange and $15 million in allegedly evaded income taxes (TIME, Nov. 3). Last week the President's experts explained that this was not a final reckoning. The implication was that the tin companies, if they agree to dicker instead of fighting the regime by litigation and fomenting embargoes abroad, might still wind up with some cash compensation for their shareholders (including the U.S. citizens who reportedly own 26% of Patino Mines & Enterprises stock...
Unpredictable, fanatic Premier Mossadegh might not win any popularity polls in the West as the man diplomats most liked to dicker with, but the growing alternative looked worse...