Word: parley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British government is also more disposed to a four-power parley than it likes to admit. Said Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in the House of Commons last week: "That thought . . . is not excluded from my mind...
There were other second thoughts. Some came from diplomats who ardently believe in the European Army, and fear that Europe's "just one more" feeling will defeat ratification unless a Big Four parley can prove that the Russians are not ready to bargain. Some, like Britain's multiplying Bevanites and their Continental counterparts, still think there is a possibility of a deal with Russia that will relieve the allies of the oppressive stress & strains of rearmament. Others see it as a way to stall until the November elections show whether the next U.S. President will...
Waxell saw his first North Americans on an Aleutian island. The faces of some were painted blue, he says, and they were "screeching" at each other at the top of their lungs. The Russians sent men ashore to parley. The Aleuts held one of them captive, and tried with unmannerly glee to drag the Russian longboat on to the rocks by its painter. Waxell called for musketry, aimed high; the Aleuts fell flat on their faces from shock. All in all, the Russians were unimpressed with the inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere, especially with their custom of plugging the nose...
...After the Reds agreed to admit U.N. reporters and withdraw armed personnel from the conference area, the parley seemed to be getting into stride, then bogged down when the Communists insisted the agenda include...
...That parley was designed to undo the work of the Nazis and restore freedom of navigation on the Danube. Vishinsky headed the Russian delegation, and six East European satellites followed his every cue. In the minority were the U.S., Britain and France...