Word: powwowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once a week privileged Comrade Hoelvold slips across the border to have a powwow with his friends. The Norwegian government, certain that the U.S.S.R. would make him a cause célèbre at the drop of a warrant, leaves him alone. The army finds him handy as an interpreter in tricky border disputes when a wandering cow or peasant gets lost on the Soviet side. As for the neighbors in Kirkenes-"Damn Communism," they whisper, bowing to Gotfred. "But the Russians could be here in a quarter of an hour. We don't want trouble...
That night, with the scores all in, the Yankees, the Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians found themselves knotted in a triple tie for the American League lead-a state of affairs so unprecedented that league officials had to powwow hurriedly to consider what should be done if a season happened to end that...
...Arrow, night train from Leningrad to Moscow, Father Laberge was assigned a bed in a four-berth compartment with three women. Such scrambled bookings are not unusual on Russian trains, but these women were no ordinary travelers. They were party members on their way to a party powwow, and the opportunity to cross-examine a priest delighted them. Asked one: "Now tell us the truth. Do you really believe the Pope is infallible?" Said the priest: "Yes, in matters of faith and morals, the Pope is infallible." But he continued: "I'm going to ask you a question...
...ready to recognize Dictator Somoza's government. They were wrong. Later, to shut off the guessing, white-haired Ambassador Dawson telephoned 17 embassies (but not the Costa Rican, Honduran or Dominican, whose governments recognized Somoza last year) and made it clear that inviting a neighbor to a neighborhood powwow did not mean approval of the way the neighbor acted...
This fresh angle raised a flurry. The Arabs snorted: "Entirely unacceptable." A British Colonial Office spokesman blurted: "It is obvious that this proposal is diametrically opposed to the British proposal at U.N. of Arthur Creech Jones." Colonial Secretary Creech Jones himself hustled off to London for a powwow. In the flurry, nearly everybody overlooked the lesson: U.N. could still find no cops...