Word: parleying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Soon after U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stepped off the plane at London Airport, he was whisked off to dinner at No. 10 Downing Street. Over the brandy, Prime Minister Churchill launched into the subject now dearest to his stout old heart: a "parley at the summit." But Dulles was expecting the lecture, and came determined to withstand it. In the words of one dinner guest, Dulles "flatly rejected" the P.M.'s proposal...
Anthony Eden dutifully introduced his boss's "parley at the summit" proposal, but far from agreeing to meet with Malenkov in Moscow, the ministers settled only on a new attempt to get Molotov to Switzerland. In separate but identical notes to Russia, they brushed aside Russia's wordily evasive request for a conference of the Big Four and Red China, and suggested again that Molotov sit down with the Big Three Foreign Ministers to discuss a final peace settlement for Germany and Austria. Time and place: Nov. 9, in Lugano. They were all agreed that Russia is afraid...