Word: bantering
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Taverne and Rees-Mogg danced gay conversational circles around their game opponents, pausing occasionally from banter to make a shrewd point...
...beginning of 1945: "To do the work of two men instead of three." By then, that 13-year labor of self-love had grown to seven volumes (final total: nine). Into it, Agate had poured his "insane desire" for immortality, and a volley of educated banter ranging from Bernhardt to boogie-woogie, censorship to Sartre...
...dripped down the shutters of the Little White House. Harry Truman awoke, turned over, peered disgustedly out the window and went back to sleep for an extra half hour. It had been like that for days, and the President was getting a little bored with the endless rainy-day banter, and with life on the cold and clammy beach...
...necessary to go into the complexities of Phelps' plot. "One need only explain that the setting is a "life-sized portrait of Melville's study" and that the people in the painting come to life and philosophize and indulge in banter with people of our own day who are looking at the painting. The philosophy got beyond me at times but it has to do with Time (represented by a grandfather clock) and white whales and is quite satisfactory; the banter, which I presume is meant to provide another frame of reference for the philosophy (besides the picture frame, which...
...combat veterans of the Pacific war. The youngsters who formed the main bulk of the team might be green to combat, but they were superbly conditioned and trained. Even headquarters clerks, cooks and orderlies were crack riflemen and machinegunners. As they landed, some of them exchanged the usual cocky banter with watching Doggies (as they call the Army men). Sample: "You can go home now, Junior. Us men have taken over." But for the most part the leathernecks had a humility not usually found in marines. In Korea, unlike Guadalcanal and many another battle, it was the Army that...