Word: parleyed
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Ford's stay in Vail was not all ski and parley. His people beckoned, so each night the Ford entourage attended one or another of the extravaganzas hosted by the celebrities, tycoons and socialites who also were in town. One afternoon the Mid-Vail lodge was electric with rumors that even Jackie Kennedy was also in town...
...concessions-until the elections are out of the way. Israel is also angry about Egypt's continuing blockade of the Bab el Mandeb straits at the southern end of the Red Sea, and in addition it is waiting to see how the Arab summit turns out. If the parley should prove to be a reprise of the Khartoum Conference of 1967, at which the Arabs vowed "no negotiations, no peace, no recognition," then the Israelis would seem to have little reason to make concessions...
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...