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Word: dickerings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Hitler's star, but I do think the Russians now feel the need to show Germany and the world in general that this is not the case. Not for Winston Churchill's blue eyes, nor to gratify President Roosevelt, but for practical business purposes in the coming dicker with the Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY--RUSSIA: Something Brewing | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...roaming at large) that later became fact. Each year he told his readers what Prairie Farmer had earned, how much he had kept as profit. From time to time wanderlust would seize him, and he would disappear for six months or a year to trade in real estate or dicker with eastern capitalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Farmer's Birthday | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

Yugoslavia, where Italy would probably move first, discovered after 22 years that the Soviet Union existed as a State, began to dicker for mutual diplomatic relations, sent a large delegation to the Moscow mob to negotiate a commercial agreement following three months of secret conferring in "a third capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Four Mobs and the Balkans | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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