Word: banters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wheaton's ongoing banter with the referee and the linesmen is carried out with well-calculated expertise. The coach knows he needs to keep the ref aware of how the opposition is illegally stonewalling Harvard, but he also knows how to stay out of trouble--barely...
...their sixth sexual encounter. Time and again, Clinton would interrupt Monica's cheery chatter by kissing her, "kind of to shut me up." In one telephone conversation he told her he wasn't interested in hearing about her job problems so he could quickly move on to sexually arousing banter. According to her testimony, he appeased her restless heart by holding out the prospect of a life together after the White House, musing about his marriage and whether he would be alone in three years. In the most secure 18-acre complex on earth, the only place he could find...
...title of a Robert Ludlum novel but is rather a geeky delight that sits at the heart of the Web and e-mail revolution. Internet protocol (generally called IP) is a language computers use to talk to one another: a hyperefficient chatter that lets phone-company machines banter by sending digital data "packets" back and forth. These packages can contain anything--a frame of video, a few lines of a fax or a split second of conversation. The computers don't care what kind of data they are moving, which makes for a faster, cheaper way to send information...
...more minutes of mindless banter, and we eventually got around to bowling. But the childishness continued. We were loud and obnoxious. We offered condescending advice when someone screwed up and gave grudging respect when someone bowled well. We made stupid jokes and laughed at everything and anything...
...specificity, Gaff Topsails is notalways an easy book to read. Although Kavanagh'sintimate knowledge makes for description asaccurate and illuminating as his vocabulary,imbuing this description with creative imaginationdemands a heavy toll in effort. There is a chapterdevoted exclusively to the geological history ofthe Newfoundland coast, pages replicating thedialectical banter of bored men on the open sea,and every other paragraph brings the unmistakablescent of the sea; electric, heavy, changing withthe hours and the wind...