Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Preston Allison, a Henderson, Texas, accountant, wanted the Carters and the Mondales to "devote one Sun day afternoon to calling people all over the country" for a three-minute chat...
Issues discussed varied widely, ranging from chit-chat about acquaintances back home to intense debates on current problems...
...writer is most successful in his evocation of an emotional landscape. A young Israeli cab driver tells him of a recent visit to a coffee shop with a friend whom he left for a second to chat with someone else: " '... just then the bomb went off and my friend was still there. So now my friend is dead,' said the cabby. His voice, still adolescent, was cracking. 'And this is how we live, mister! O.K.? We live this...
Unlike Dole, Mondale is at ease with correspondents. After a long day, he sometimes strolls-in his stocking feet-to the back of his jet to chat with the reporters stowed there. Earlier this month, he walked jauntily down the aisle with a copy of a Harris poll stuck ostentatiously in his dark blue vest. "Poll? What poll?" he asked with elaborate innocence, obviously delighted that the voters surveyed by Harris preferred him over Dole, 48% to 36%. Even in the South, where Mondale's liberal record had been expected to be an albatross, he outrated Dole...
Entebbe Too. So it seems. "The hijackers were very kind. We could do anything on the plane, even chat with them," said Febe Poblete, 20, a native of Manila who was skyjacked by Filipinos last April on a flight out of Hong Kong. Said a stewardess on the same flight: "The leader kissed us before we left. I already miss him." A French woman, released by the skyjackers of the Air France jet just before the Israeli rescue at Entebbe thought the terrorists had been "wonderful." In another skyjacking, a steward liked his Arab captors so much that he accepted...