Word: parleyed
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...eager to take over as the Queen's first minister. His bout with the Russians at Berlin whetted his zest, and he came home with a tougher view about dealing with the Kremlin than that suggested by Sir Winston's still-evident yearning for a sweeping parley at the summit...
...third day, Dulles proposed to move on to the business that brought the West to Berlin-Germany. Bidault pounced on Molotov's proposal that the Big Four invite Red China to a full-scale peace parley next spring. "China is aiding the rebels in Indo-China in a war that is killing many French people and causing much suffering in France," said he. "France cannot ignore this. As long as this situation lasts, we cannot meet with the Chinese People's Republic." But he did not shut the door all the way. "If the facts should change...
...Underwear. Jammed into quarters that were ludicrously small, with suitcases for desks, the specialists tried to get some order into a parley that had no agenda. Atomic Expert Strauss disappeared almost immediately with Sir Winston's friend and atomic adviser, Lord Cherwell. They went off "to buy some underwear," said an official with a smile...
...give a complete picture of anything at any time." Newspapers and correspondents seldom bring news "home" to the reader. Thus, in U.S. papers surveyed by I.P.I., not a single reader was tempted to read stories with such dull headlines as ISRAELI STUDIES EGYPT PROPOSALS; COMMIE SAYS SOVIETS WANT GERMAN PARLEY...
More Baffling. Just before Moscow rolled out its new hard line, Winston Churchill retreated from his insistence on a "parley at the summit" with Premier Georgy Malenkov. He was, as usual, stubbornly optimistic: "The probabilities of another world war have diminished, or at least have become more remote. I think it would be true to say that [the outlook] is less formidable but more baffling...