Word: parleyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wing elements into the political mainstream. The Administration is now simply more willing to talk about talking-and to use the hitherto forbidden word negotiation-although at week's end the State Department was discomfited by what it called Mexico's "premature" announcement of a U.S.-Nicaraguan parley in April. For that matter, there is no evidence yet that the postures of flexibility struck by Cuba and Nicaragua last week represented any real change of policy on their parts. It is plainly in each country's interest to appear accommodating. The real question is not whether...
...pumps his meaty fist up and down. When the runner's safe he spreads his arms so far apart that they force his nose into the dirt. Often a manager comes charging out of the dugout to disagree with him, and he meets the guy halfway, to hold a parley with him at the top of his vocal cords until, finally fed up, he jerks out the big thumb to say, "You're outta here...
They were not disappointed. Chief Delegate Michael Novak, a neoconservative scholar at Washington's American Enterprise Institute, set out to assure the parley that the U.S. was not about to abandon human rights concerns. Novak made the difference clear: rather than criticizing only rightist regimes for human rights violations-a course the Carter Administration was often accused of following at the expense of U.S. strategic interest-he gave notice that the U.S. would not tolerate the flouting of human rights in Communist regimes. "Abuse of human rights is abominable," Novak declared, "but we want the same standards applied everywhere...
...back down the line--"When we start to fight, one honk and a green flag means hit the fence, two honks and a red flag means retreat," he explains. "Pass it back." They head for the west side of the plant, and approach decided on after hours of agonizing parley. Those that the western majority couldn't convince are at this moment marching to the south, toward the marsh that lies across the once-again-rebuilt bridge. For some, this is a sentimental journey--the south marsh saw the heaviest action in the battle of Seabrook/1979, "The tide adds...
News of the Brezhnev-Giscard parley, to be held in Poland with Polish Communist Leader Edward Gierek as host, surprised and confounded many Western diplomats. West German officials, perhaps piqued because Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had been upstaged by Giscard, regarded the summit as another Soviet at tempt to shatter Western solidarity. On the other hand, French officials maintained that Giscard was only following Charles de Gaulle's policy of trying to mediate between East and West. The focus of the summit was not disclosed in advance, but probable topics included NATO'S plans to deploy medium-range nuclear...