Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist East Germany celebrated its tenth anniversary-and cockily plastered West Berlin elevated railway stations with the new East German hammer-and-compass flag-Russia's First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov was on hand to announce that Moscow would demand that the East Germans be seated at any summit meeting dealing with Germany. And in the U.N., the Russians were busily beating the drum for the "general disarmament plan" unveiled by Khrushchev last month. Last week, after maneuvering the General Assembly into agreeing to a debate restricted to the Khrushchev proposals, Russia's First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily...
...majority in the House of Commons, a feat without parallel in the annals of British politics. Overcoming a slashing Labor Party challenge, he had won his own mandate to rule Britain for the next five years. He had won, too, the right to speak for England at the summit he had done so much to promote, and to conserve and expand the Tory-fostered prosperity that had cracked the class lines of British society and provided the votes for his victory...
...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...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18--Although diplomats are reluctant to talk about it, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and President Eisenhower are falling out of step again on their march to a summit meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev...
Macmillan is reported to have been pressing hard to rush Eisenhower and De Gaulle into a conference with Khrushchev at the earliest possible date. His pressure has surprised American officials who had thought he would attach less urgency to a summit meeting once the British elections were over...