Word: parleyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When they learned of the students' plans, NIH officials offered to meet with them instead, and the result of the parley was total capitulation. Apparently deciding that public attitudes are unalterably opposed to experimentation, the NIH declared emphatically that it "does not now support research on live aborted human fetuses and does not contemplate approving the support of such research...
First, the paper reported that dancer Fred Astaire ducked a question at a press conference when asked if he could envision a musical about the Watergate case. The story's headline was vintage Varietyese: "Astaire Creates Watergate Dance/'The Side-Step', at N.Y. Press Parley...
Whatever their motives, the four held a conference sometime that summer and decided on a trial swap, agreeing, with remarkable forethought, that if the trade were not agreeable to everyone, all would go back to their original partners. In the course of this parley, no detail was overlooked. Each couple had two children, so it was decided that the older child of each marriage would live with his father, the younger one with his mother. There was even an agreement to exchange family dogs...
...heroes have returned from the fray an' will shortly squat before the campfire to pow-wow an' parley...
...machine an' did it in a rush an' there's several mistakes you'll run across. Use your head, pipecleaner. One doesn't squat before the campfire to bow-wow and barley. One squats before the campfire to pow-wow an' parley...