Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been expected, our undistinguished Senator Dodd has uttered another of his profound political oratories. The Geneva talks have failed; there appears to be no summit conference in sight; and this politician wants to prevent the one remaining possibility that may in some way alleviate the heat of the cold war. It is unfortunate that this mediocre man does not realize that he may be instigating violence during the Khrushchev visit...
...Summit Conference. In Sao Paulo, Brazil, traffic was tied up for two hours on two of the city's main thoroughfares when cars operated by the state government, the finance ministry and the state police met in a three-way collision...
Later at a press conference, the President was asked about a summit conference after Khrushchev's visit to Washington. The President said: "Any summit meeting would be a grave mistake unless there was confidence among all of us that real progress of some kind could be achieved." German reporters, long fed on Washington punditry about the "sick" Ike, were impressed by the President's mastery of his topics. "He's firm," said one. Another reporter said: "He's decisive...
...daylight, the tinkling of silver bells and the aromatic incense of another age vanished like a mirage in the Kara Kum Desert. A Red flag flapped on the 203-foot-high summit of the Great Minaret, from which for centuries cruel khans and emirs had cast their enemies to their deaths. Over the main gate, in Russian and Uzbek, Maclean read the inscription: Town Soviet. Elsewhere he found decay and neglect. The miles of covered shops in Central Asia's most fabled bazaar had dwindled to a handful of grubby stalls, and only a few of the city...
Hals's fellow citizens found him "talented" only, and his latter-day reputation has suffered at the hands of art lecturers, who used to discuss his work as a foothill below the summit that Dutch art reached in Rembrandt. In reality, Hals stands halfway between Rembrandt's brooding darkness and Rubens' brilliant dash, also takes his place with them, in retrospect, as one of the best painters that ever lived...