Word: bullbatting
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...sets and the day's work is done (but the strain of the day still lingers in mind and muscle), when the restless dust starts to settle back on the cotton fields, men gather on verandahs and wharves to sit and talk while they watch the bullbats nervously darting and swooping around the chimneys. Bourbon with water from the branch is in order-and low-voiced, scattered talk of high politics. Such a talk Jimmy Byrnes calls a "bullbat session." He loves them. In 1946 the bullbat session-bourbon, branch water and all-became (like the green baize...
...first Byrnes set too much store by the bullbat session. In Moscow last December he had a long, informal chat with Joe Stalin. Joe seemed to like Jimmy, and when Jimmy left he thought he and Joe saw eye-to-eye on two points Jimmy had made: 1) the Russians should go easy on Persia, and 2) a 25-year treaty guaranteeing the disarmament of Germany would be a good thing...
History Goes "Quack, Quack." Through the summer, in bullbat sessions and public meetings at the 21-nation Conference in Paris, Byrnes talked well and vigorously. On one occasion he cried: "I will sit here no more arguing whether the word should be 'and' or 'but' . . . haggling over commas and semicolons. . . ." A New Zealand delegate, W. J. Jordan, was similarly annoyed. He snapped: "I'm sick of listening to 'quack, quack, quack' hour after hour...
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