Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME Correspondent Joseph Kane visited Chatham for several days to chat with the townfolk. His report...
...eyes really have it with this mayor. As I walked up to greet him that afternoon, those eyes met mine, then glanced back over my shoulder, then back to my eyes. Rather than just stand and chat, Al grabbed my arm and walked, ever so slowly, with me in tow along the path he would have taken if I had never even come along. We must have looked like those Italian men who stroll, arm in arm, across the ancient bridges or along the boulevards of any Italian town; very relaxed, yet somehow infused with purpose, even if that purpose...
Last month a vacationer from Hamburg strayed too near the border fence along its northern stretch, so the East German guards shot him and dragged him through the fence for interrogation. Several days later, a young Hamburg musician tried to engage an East German border guard in a chat about Western music. The response: a fusillade that sent the musician scrambling to safety in some nearby bushes. In the most recent incident, an Italian truck driver, who happened to be a member of the Communist Party, crossed legally into West Germany at a checkpoint in Bavaria, but then...
...typically moved slowly, listened widely to advice and pushed steadily on, waiting for his adversaries to slip. Reagan did so last week. Ford just puffed on his pipe. He asked the S.O.S. and Chowder and Marching Club (Republican hail fellows from Congress) to the White House for a chat. Then he sat back and listened as about 40 of them vented their views on whom he should select as a running mate and how he should run against Carter. Ford listened and smiled. One man present, an old college friend of Ford's from the Big Ten, recalled...
...seem to have much drive, sexual or otherwise. There are few intense emotions, little artistic achievement and few fights. Instead of expressing anger, a Dani tribesman usually moves away from an offending situation. Wars, according to Heider, have the emotional content of deer hunts in America. The warriors chat for a long while, fight for an hour, then fall back for more conversation. Revenge and anger rarely play a role-the Dani simply want to placate their ghosts and end the fighting as quickly as possible. Their only real interest seems to be in raising pigs and growing yams...