Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast, Nixon is tense, and his phrasing less skillful. Visibly he struggles for dignity, for sincerity, for occasional folksiness. People some times chat to one another during his speech. And when Nixon delivers a punch line, the crowd often hesitates a split second then applauds loudly and nervously, as if each person were afraid the others would stop...
Meanwhile, back at the hotel, Suzanne Brown receives her lover. He has responsibilities: business and family life. She has passions. Her charms prevail until a second confrontation scene in which his wife drops in for a chat. She has all the answers (she asks all the questions). It becomes apparent from Mr. Lobelius's cowardice in facing either his wife or his lover that we have another ill-fated love on our hands. In a poignant Bergman touch, Mr. Lobelius returns to the hotel room shortly after following his wife out, but only to retrieve his briefcase; the fading expectant...
After a brief chat with the President about his new assignment, Charlie Mohr left the White House in a reminiscent mood. He wrote...
...Queen Elizabeth. At a Communist Czech reception, Shehu stood forlornly in a corner, studiously avoided by everybody except the State Department security man assigned as his bodyguard. And when, at a party given by the Rumanian Reds, Khrushchev took his satellite cronies into a back room for a chat, the door was shut in Shehu's face as he started to follow them...
...Cornell University, where he told a gathering of railroad union executives that the U.S. "public transportation policy is so out of harmony with the realities of 1960 as to be more closely reflective of the vanished realities of 1920," Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell took time out to chat with a New Deal predecessor. The ex-Secretary: Frances Perkins, now, at 78, a thrice-a-week lecturer at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and still as spunky as the day in 1933 when, as the nation's first female Cabinet member, she admitted...