Word: banters
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...going to have to go through that and find a way to clean up my language too.” When questioned about the deleted passages, Rumsfeld got meta-ridiculous, trying to cover up the cover-up by dismissing the deleted passages as “some banter.” Apparently, when you’re the defense secretary, your conversations are so important that admitting that you shared secret war plans that you claim never to have finalized with a Saudi Prince before you told your own Secretary of State constitutes “banter...
...does it with a mandarin's eye. He analyzes the subtle semiotics of "jerkology," the interrogator's art of cajoling a prisoner into confessing--"of convincing a perp to trust you more than he trusts himself, and then betraying that trust." Empty hours of patrol time fill up with banter, and Conlon transcribes it with a verve reminiscent of Mamet...
Still, the Sys worry that in bringing in outside managers, something important might get lost. The collegial atmosphere they have created can't be found in any ordinary boardroom. At a business lunch in Manila, members of the family, each striving to talk over another, banter happily about malls, politics, their kids. When Sy declares, "I've never had an inferiority complex," Henry Jr., the eldest son, quips, "only shopping complexes." The family bursts into gales of laughter. The trick will be preserving what Tessie calls a "continuity of culture," preserving that family spirit even as the Sys' role diminishes...
...After four years, it’s incredibly comfortable,” Goldberg says. “We constantly banter for seven innings and have a great time together. We communicate well and have...
...refuse to acknowledge that situation, tacitly penciling in a Princeton win before the game has even been played. All you can muster is acquiescent banter about how the NIT might come calling, while conceding that you’ll merely keep an eye on the scoreboard to see if the Crimson can knock off the mighty Tigers...