Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even so, the lordly fellows in the booths turned away from the platform at will, as usual feeling no need to carry every seconding speech or prayer. They might announce "gavel to gavel" coverage, but they felt free to ram in all those commercials or just to chat on-camera. Television, once the pushy guest in the hall, has taken over. Such a development used to disturb political scientists, who remember how influential was television's 1968 crosscutting between demonstrators outside and an apoplectic Mayor Daley inside. This time television was guilty of only minor attempts at hype...
Flying Divots. He forced through the company's board a reorganization plan that named him Genesco's first chief executive officer. A year later, Maxey Jarman retired from the board; although he visited the Genesco headquarters almost daily to chat with friends, he and his son hardly spoke. Meanwhile, Frank shut down 177 marginal Kress stores, sold such subsidiaries as San Remo men's suits and I. Miller women's shoes, slashed more than 10,000 employees from the payroll and installed a new management team. "There were a lot of people around here who didn...
Because Rick moved from one job to another for 25 years at Harvard, he has a broad social circle. He'll chat in the yard with John Finley about the resident birds or discuss his last assignment with a Harvard cop. "I have a very deep vertical cut because of the way I came up in the university," Rick says. "I still have a lot of friends who are engineers and janitors and I talk and eat lunch with them--they're old friends. But I've come up a little...
...staying in the background. Hardly any have yet joined a candidate's staff full time. Instead, they offer their tutelage in a variety of ways: sometimes by frequent personal meetings with the candidate, often through staff members and sometimes only in an occasional phone conversation, memo or quick chat. Nonetheless, their views of the issues-and of the candidates-provide a preview of the fall debate and possibly even some intriguing hints of the economic tone, mood and direction of the next Administration. A brief rundown on the ideas of the leading candidates and the men behind them, starting...
...letter Chapman says he'd like to have a "chat" with each contestant. He doesn't say a "talk" or a "meeting" because you can just tell, as I could see later, that he's the type of person who would chat--with a sort of clipped voice and neat and understated way of dressing. So up to Chapman's office, and he says that I should drop the English accent I was using to get the feeling of the piece across. He says that one of the judges pointed out that Orwell--who's dead now--wouldn't have...