Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eavesdropping. Thus acquainted with U.S. firmness, Sir Winston did not even bother to bring up his private dream of flying off to Moscow alone for a face-to-face meeting with Premier Malenkov-a meeting "at the summit." Instead, the discussion shifted to a specific subject: Russia's sudden assent to a Big Four Foreign Ministers' meeting on Germany and Austria. The British hoped for a quick Western acceptance and a quick note to Moscow, so the outside world would not get the notion that this was the only reason for the Bermuda get-together. Early January...
According to Brooks, "the pattern of November may usually be expected to continue on into winter. At present there is on snow cover for hundreds of miles to the north. Even Mt. Washington is not snow covered and there is daily automobile traffic to the summit. There is no white surface to reflect the sunshine and keep the air cold by day and there is no insulating layer of snow to prevent the warm November heat in the saturated ground from reaching the air readily...
More Baffling. Just before Moscow rolled out its new hard line, Winston Churchill retreated from his insistence on a "parley at the summit" with Premier Georgy Malenkov. He was, as usual, stubbornly optimistic: "The probabilities of another world war have diminished, or at least have become more remote. I think it would be true to say that [the outlook] is less formidable but more baffling...
Austral Seas. Three weeks later, the expedition reached the Pacific. Chronicler Andrés de Valdarrábanos tells what happened: "Captain [Balboa], going ahead of all those he was conducting up a bare high hill, saw from its summit the South Sea . . . And immediately he turned toward the troops, very happy, lifting eyes and hands to Heaven, praising Jesus Christ and His glorious Mother." Balboa knelt, commanding his men to do likewise, "and gave thanks to God for the grace He had shown him in allowing him to discover that sea." Later, Balboa and his men scrambled down...
Anthony Eden dutifully introduced his boss's "parley at the summit" proposal, but far from agreeing to meet with Malenkov in Moscow, the ministers settled only on a new attempt to get Molotov to Switzerland. In separate but identical notes to Russia, they brushed aside Russia's wordily evasive request for a conference of the Big Four and Red China, and suggested again that Molotov sit down with the Big Three Foreign Ministers to discuss a final peace settlement for Germany and Austria. Time and place: Nov. 9, in Lugano. They were all agreed that Russia is afraid...