Word: banteringly
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...leaders banter about their airplanes and cars, but personal wealth is no longer part of the ruling equation, at least as it was centuries ago. The strongest bond is the shared burden of governing. At one juncture of the SALT I negotiations in Moscow nine years ago, to prove how difficult were Nixon's domestic problems with the treaty, Brezhnev was shown a secret cable from U.S. generals protesting the proposed agreement. Brezhnev smiled, and then whispered that he could show American negotiators almost identical dispatches from his own obstinate military...
SHORTLY AFTER 2 p.m. today, more than a dozen men and several women will file into a huge conference room on the second floor of University Hall. After an obligatory round of backslapping and banter, the members of the Faculty Council will take their seats around a long wooden table, eyed from above by dozens of portraits of the men who have run Harvard for three-and-a-half centuries. No one else will watch them: Visitors aren't allowed, save those faculty members specially invited to discuss an issue of the day with the council...
...Landers and Dear Abby, but make no mistake about it, Representative Claude Pepper, 80, is really keyed up over his new advice column, syndicated to some 700 newspapers. Since he is also chairman of the House Select Committee on Aging, Congressman Pepper's "Lonely Heart's Club" banter will deal with the concerns of the elderly. But like any columnist worth his salt, Pepper will spice up matters with advice to the lovelorn. Asked one reader: "I am 74 years old, a widower, and am seriously considering marriage to a woman who is 68. We are curious...
...just as quick to hand out compliments as the friendly barbs and banter thrown around the locker room. "My job as co-captain is to keep Betty under control--no really Betty and I tend to propel one another. She is an ideal person for the job; she gets the work done, isn't flashy, exudes pride and leadership and inspires...
...always, there was in-flight banter between the astronauts and the Houston control center. When Crippen felt Houston was loading him with too many tasks at one time-realigning the inertial navigational unit, shooting a picture of the Southern Lights, confirming a message on the teletype-he asked in mock seriousness: "You mean all that right now?" To jog the astronauts awake, Houston piped in a loud country and western ditty about the shuttle called The Mean Machine. There was a somewhat more serious moment when Vice President Bush got on the radio from Washington to congratulate them on behalf...