Word: parleys
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...last Zouzou let him in; family, doctors and lawyers soon followed and a parley ensued. Brokenheartedly, Safsaf promised a divorce, whereupon Zouzou coldly agreed to go back to her gilded cage in Garden City...
...realize that his states of mind and health are fitful, and that his bad periods border on ineffectiveness. He wants to retire soon, but his obsession is to do it as the Great Peacemaker. For long, he dreamed of a dramatic personal meeting with Stalin or Malenkov, a "parley at the summit." Now, Churchill has settled his hopes on a spectacular Asian compromise as a suitable valedictory gesture...
John Bailey and Bob Ornsteen tied for first among the freshmen in last Friday's trials, both carding 82's. Other qualifiers were Jon Lind, Louis Klein, Jack Jaspers, Craig Swoboda, Fred Vogel, Bill Parley, Jay Hollander, and Tom Ellington...
...fell to Henderson and Ruck to meet the Mau Mau chiefs and escort them, under safe conduct, to talks with Major General George Heyman, the British chief of staff. The two policemen drove their jeeps deep into murderland. One big parley was ruined by sheer heavyhandedness. Major General Heyman arrived, but as the army communiqué put it, "the Mau Mau representatives came within a few hundred yards but something frightened them off." The "something" was 1,800 British and African infantrymen, poured into the area to protect the British brass...
Labor's request for a Big Three meeting was all right, he said, but only on the condition that "immediate" does not imply "action at an unsuitable time." But this time he retreated from his own earlier (May 1953) plea for a "parley at the summit." "It seems to me," he said, "with the Geneva Conference imminent . . . you could hardly pick a more illchosen moment ... for a meeting of heads of states. We must certainly see what happens there before attempting what is, after all, a very unusual reserve procedure...