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Word: blatherer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't just the beauty of the sight but the contrast form what had gone before that struck me. Somehow, Widener seemed profound, and so different from the mindless hi-I'm-Jacques-from-Podunk freshman blather. I headed toward the Widener steps and began climbing; the buzz of freshmen melted away...

Author: By Jacques E.C. Hymans, | Title: Ivory Tower Blues | 5/11/1994 | See Source »

...vote partisan majority is one that doesn't have any legs or wings." Stark rejoined sarcastically: "I just think he's exactly what Tennessee deserves, and I wish him Godspeed in the Senate." As for Cooper's plan, Stark says, "His bill is all pap and blather. Everybody's got to love it because it doesn't do anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bloody Clash of Egos | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...taken somewhat seriously. Doesn't this bother anybody? It's mob rule, just like our hypothetical post-nuclear-winter Chicago. It's also a power trip for the columnist, just to write blather and occasionally slip in things like...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: The Sports Column | 3/22/1994 | See Source »

...taken somewhat seriously. Doesn't this bother anybody? It's mob rule, just like our hypothetical post-nuclear-winter France. It's also a power trip for the columnist, just to write blather and occasionally slip in things like...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: A Desultory Philippic | 1/26/1994 | See Source »

...hear the blather about cold war consensus, one would think that the '80s never happened. At every turn, on every issue for which there presumably was one simple, knee-jerk, anti-Soviet answer -- the MX, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Grenada, "Euromissile" deployment -- there was deep division. And practically every time, liberals, so wistful now for the easy choices of yore, made the wrong choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greatest Cold War Myth of All | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

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