Word: parleyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pitting dark skins against red skins: "They'll never do it! But if they do, it'll be the first time they let the Indians win!" In the current saga, Davis plays a corporal in a cavalry unit assigned to haul a friendly Indian to a peace parley. Time: the early 1870s. The villains are Apaches, but Corporal Davis outfoxes them in the end by sacrificing his own life in a ruse to deliver the good Indian to the summit. Upshot: the bad Indians lose...
Toward talk's end. Ike made a special point of sounding a strong note on West Berlin: "Freedom, if there's to be peace, is indivisible. We've really got to be firm." Macmillan said, "I agree." On parley-at-the-summit, the President cautioned firmly: "I will not be a party of a meeting that is going to depress and discourage people. Therefore, we must have some promise of fruitful results...
...secret talks will pivot around more limited objectives--a stopgap agreement in the explosive Berlin crisis and an agreement for a parley at the summit...
...Soviet, British, and French ministers sat down at 5:55 p.m. in the ornate Council Room of the Palace of Nations for the first big-power parley since...
State Department press officer Lincoln White denied "as strongly as I possibly can" Moscow's accusation Sunday that the United States deliberately flouted Berlin's air corridor rules by a high altitude plane flight March 27. The Soviets said this was done to wreck prospects at the Geneva parley starting...