Word: parleying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week Cat Brown got two other kinds of dispatches. In his letter to President Eisenhower about why-not-get-together-at-a-parley-at-the-summit, Khrushchev called Cat Brown a lunatic. Brown considered this a compliment. Three days later, Brown learned that at year's end he will get a fourth star and command of NATO's Southern Europe command based in Naples...
...when Chamoun's predecessor tried to stay in office during an unpopular second term, Shehab refused him the army's assistance and reluctantly served as acting president until Chamoun's election. Ostentatiously unwilling to order his troops to fight except when attacked, ever ready to parley affably with rebel leaders, and to see that they are kept well supplied with food and water, Shehab would probably be acceptable to rebel leaders as a compromise successor to Chamoun. His conduct suggests that a draft would be all right with...
...worldwide debate that had sometimes tended to obscure that basic nature. For months U.S. policy had been influenced by the imponderable pressures of "world opinion" toward negotiated agreements with world Communism in general and toward a suspension of U.S. nuclear tests in particular, and in longings for a parley at the summit. Now that pressure was indefinitely postponed-as usual, at the cost of the lives of brave men. Said Secretary of State Dulles: "I still think it will be a little time before there is a summit conference, if indeed there...
...Nepal is wily, mustachioed K. I. Singh, who for 110 tempestuous days last year ruled as Prime Minister, and is strongly suspected of being under the thumb of Red China, where he once took refuge for three years. Last week, after abruptly refusing to attend the King's parley, Singh let loose with an anti-U.S., anti-British diatribe. Three months in office, stormed Singh, had convinced him that "Nepal is under imminent danger to her sovereignty and independence at the hands of British and American people in Nepal...
...There is a slight gain, perhaps," cracked Secretary Dulles one day last week. "The last letter from Mr. Khrushchev is approximately one-third of the length of the last letter from Bulganin." Latest exchanges of the months-old correspondence on a parley at the summit...