Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this hour of crisis, Bok, the school's dean, showed up to drink coffee and chat with the rebels. He assured them that he would consider their demands very carefully; they went home. The Law School escaped turmoil, and Bok became known as Harvard's coolest crisis handler...
Never an intellectual or a particularly brilliant conversationalist, Frederik IX reigned with easygoing informality. From the Amalienborg Palace, he often watched steamers leaving Copenhagen, and sometimes, using a flashlight, he would signal greetings in Morse code to the captain. Bicycling through the Tivoli Gardens one morning, he stopped to chat with an American tourist. "I'm a storekeeper from Chicago," said the tourist. "Who are you?" "Oh-I'm the King," replied Frederik...
...Coach Don Shula at 1:30 a.m. Says Shula: "He told me, 'Now you understand that I'm a Washington Redskin fan, but I'm a part-time resident of Miami and I've been following the Dolphins very closely.' " During their ten-minute chat, says Shula, the President "talked real technical football. He told me that Dallas was a pretty tough club but that he thought we could hit Warfield on a down-and-in pattern." Washington Redskin fans, among others, have reason to be skeptical about the presidential strategy. Shortly before the Redskins...
Allen on Nixon. A tall, white-haired charmer, Donovan frequently goes to interviews without any prepared questions or topics, preferring to let his subjects chat away on things they really care about. Instead of prodding Dean Rusk about Viet Nam, he concentrated on the former Secretary of State's experiences with students at the University of Georgia-where he now teaches -and got a wry description of Rusk's generation-gap difficulties: "A dialogue between those who are beginning to forget and those who have no chance to remember." When President Nixon imposed wage and price controls, Donovan...
...American military presence in the Far East will be the first topic of discussion in Nixon's upcoming visit to China, Lin predicted. "How can you have tea and a nice chat with someone who has a gun to your head?" Lin asked. The Chinese will insist that the U.S. withdraw its forces before they will discuss trade, cultural changes, and other issues...