Word: chatter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aggravator is by far the best-known woman, burning up the CB waves with nonstop chatter. "She's built like a gorilla," says one trucker. "And her husband Earthquake ain't never said a word on the air." In many cases, CB pals never meet or learn each other's real names...
...Hope's back room curl up like quaking children in the middle of a nightmare. Everyone in Harry Hope's place needs booze to nourish his dream, but it is the dream itself, not alcohol, that keeps them alive. Hickey, underneath his salesman's brass and chatter, needs rage, contempt and anguish to galvanize the entire play...
Ride the bus sometime when it gets packed with 43 people again and see if the bus isn't also filled with chatter, giggles, smiles and stories of filled phone booths. You should have been with us the time two junior high toughs had stalemated themselves in a fight which had reached the point of verbal threats and hair pulling. It really appeared that they did not want to keep fighting but did not know how to get out of it without losing face. So, we asked Jack to stop, we all piled out and pulled them apart (they barely...
Author Just, a Washington-based journalist and novelist, has an ear for Washington talk and a dramatist's knack for that precise moment in the flow of chatter when, although nothing important seems to have been said, the lives of the talkers change course. The Senator in his private office is busy phrasing an announcement to the press that he and his wife have separated. With his aide, not incidentally a woman, he searches for a wording that sounds statesmanlike, sober, and does not suggest loose living or the suicidal word divorce...
...Margaret Court's debacle, the ladies of the suburbs had a cause. And what a cause. The daily ladies doubles was now field for liberation, the weekend tennis its proving ground. And the talk over tea after tennis was noisy with sexual banter, and later, the cocktail chatter grew hotter as the sexual sparring got heavier. The housewife was to be vindicated, her woman's honor restored: Margaret had put meaning into tennis...