Word: parleys
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Foreign Devils' Lens. The sun rose on the Shaw Brothers in Shanghai in 1923, when Run Run and Run Me, down to their last penny, held a somber parley with their two other brothers, Run Ji and Run Di. At issue: whether or not to sell their last remaining family possession, a dilapidated theater. They decided to sell their house instead and live in the theater, managed to put together a cumbersome stage melodrama called Man from Shensi, which inexplicably became a hit. One reason: the first night, the hero leaped into the air, fell through rotten floor boards...
South African government's Bantu Education department ruled that its officials no longer may shake hands with Africans they meet on official business. To get around any awkward encounters, they should employ "traditional" greetings to blacks-say, a hand raised in salute or, when squatting in tribal parley, the clapping of hands...
...pitting dark skins against red skins: "They'll never do it! But if they do, it'll be the first time they let the Indians win!" In the current saga, Davis plays a corporal in a cavalry unit assigned to haul a friendly Indian to a peace parley. Time: the early 1870s. The villains are Apaches, but Corporal Davis outfoxes them in the end by sacrificing his own life in a ruse to deliver the good Indian to the summit. Upshot: the bad Indians lose...
Toward talk's end. Ike made a special point of sounding a strong note on West Berlin: "Freedom, if there's to be peace, is indivisible. We've really got to be firm." Macmillan said, "I agree." On parley-at-the-summit, the President cautioned firmly: "I will not be a party of a meeting that is going to depress and discourage people. Therefore, we must have some promise of fruitful results...
...secret talks will pivot around more limited objectives--a stopgap agreement in the explosive Berlin crisis and an agreement for a parley at the summit...