Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years later, TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief James Bell pursued the same subject in a personal chat, asking: "Why not go back to practicing law and make a bundle like Tom Dewey and Richard Nixon when they were out of office?" Wallace thought for a moment. "Naw, I'm not interested in law, and I guess I wouldn't be much good at it any more." Well, why not run for aging John Sparkman's Alabama Senate seat in 1978? "Naw, I don't want to go to Washington to sit in the Senate." Surely there must...
...chartered Boeing 727, he told reporters: "I'm not going to answer any questions on the plane. I'm going to sleep." Moments afterward, however, he had second thoughts. Again flashing his piano-keyboard grin and seemingly relaxed, he walked back to the press section to chat...
...ersatz" or "outre," nor people "parvenu"; chamois gloves and cummerbunds are "de rigeur." A favorite social disease is known fondly as "The Syph". All is familiar and in its place, for good or for worse. You are meant to enter his world of social fatuousness, accept his intimate chit-chat as personal conseil and assume that you possess all the sports cars, villas and yachts that are referred to. As a result, you and your mythical antagonist--i.e., the ever-present social enemy--become the protagonists. The verbal bouts in which you both engage are conducted in two dialects: "pukka...
Howard ("Bo") Callaway, head of Ford's campaign, has urged the President to distance himself from Kissinger, and to tell him to lower his voice for the primary season. Kissinger heard some of the talk played back in gossipy Washington. He asked Callaway over to chat about the problem. Bo explained his "distance" theory. Henry countered that Presidents were not credited with leadership by being distant from their Secretaries; they were either leaders or they were...
During the chat with her visitor, Patty made a number of statements that undercut her basic defense that she had cooperated with the S.L.A. out of fear alone. Patty said she had been "pissed off' by her capture and that she had "a revolutionary feminist" viewpoint. She added: "My politics are real different from way back when." Questioned by Bailey, Patty said she had made the statements because of her fear of the Harrises. At the time, Emily Harris was assigned the cell adjoining hers...