Word: parleyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Franklin Roosevelt was the first President to take to the air and dramatically expand a President's reach, flying in 1943 to Casablanca in a Boeing Clipper to meet Churchill and De Gaulle. Harry Truman sped to Wake Island to parley with General Douglas MacArthur in a Douglas DC-6 called the Independence. Ike was hailed throughout the world in the Columbine, a slope-nosed Lockheed Constellation. All made momentous trips, heightened by the marvel of American aviation that shrank the world dramatically with each new President...
...Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan's visit to Washington this week, the statement was clearly intended as a warning to Israel not to put any more roadblocks along the way to Geneva. President Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance will discuss reconvening the peace parley with both Dayan and Arab foreign ministers coming to the U.S. for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly...
...47th UNITED MINE WORKERS convention ended last Saturday on a surprisingly positive note. Arnold Miller, the union's embattled president, emerged victorious if not unscathed from the parley, which his opponents in the UMW had called for the express purpose of bringing him down...
...down at the worker, foreman and department-supervisor levels. Doug Peach enters the negotiations at the fourth stage of a ritualized dispute procedure that calls for as many as seven steps leading up to John Owen's office. The difference in question is $5 a week. At a parley in the manager's office, Peach is told that another Rubery Owen plant pays the lower rate ($87.55 a week...
...Rhodesian groups could not even agree on a location for future meetings. Last week's parley was staged right on the border between Rhodesia and Zambia, a concession to the fact that Smith would not hold the talks outside Rhodesia and Muzorewa would not hold them inside. Smith insisted that future sessions be held inside Rhodesia. But six A.N.C. members who face arrest on subversion charges if they should return to Rhodesia would not be able to attend. Smith bluntly refused to grant the council leaders temporary immunity, explaining: "It would involve people who are well-known terrorist leaders...