Word: parleyed
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Americans have become so gutless and cowardly that if Florida were invaded from Cuba and Texas from Mexico, we would probably call a 14-nation parley and cede the Southern states to them as long as they didn't cross the Mason-Dixon line...
...Congo last week found itself with a new political structure, a new name-and perhaps even a prospect of peace Among the island palms of placid Madagascar, most of the faction leaders me for a sweltering summit parley, agreed to split the nation into eight new sovereign states loosely joined. Tentative title: Confederation of Central African States...
Flying southeast down the island to the hills where 400 rebels are holed up, Castro first tried to arrange a parley with one of their leaders, a former captain in his army. When that failed, 10,000 militia attacked and were driven off. In Havana, Castro wasted no time in persuasion; his revolutionary tribunals held 13 trials in five days, cranked out prison terms of nine to 30 years for 77 "counter-revolutionaries," death for nine more...
...audience most. But Coryell's defense of Linus Pauling was, in context, peripheral to the main topic, and Williams' six-point program for "what you can do" turned out to be largely a program for what a Democratic Administration might do. Save for his emphasis on "arms to parley," though, Williams' speech seemed to encourage the audience, to show them that there are important politicians on their side...
Williams strongly supported Kennedy's position that, in Winston Churchill's words, "We arm to parley." Some hissed...