Word: chatter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Troubles. Last week the sounds of stress seemed all too familiar and ominous to Velasco. In Quito, the capital, seven consecutive days of student violence ended in a three-hour battle involving tanks, tear gas and the chatter of machine guns. As if on cue, Velasco summoned his military chiefs. "I quit," he announced. This time, however, there was a change in the script. At the urging of Defense Minister Jorge Acosta, 49, who is Velasco's nephew, the generals refused to accept the President's resignation. Instead, they urged him to accept the backing of the barracks...
...revolution. He lavishes on them the kind of contempt that can issue only from someone who has known revolution firsthand. Tyrmand, of course, takes words with a deadly seriousness because he knows that in a totalitarian state they can lead to death when used too freely. In America, revolutionary chatter seems both careless and frivolous...
...loved more!" The girl skitters on the edge of madness, leaping from drab reality to poetic fancy to sheer incoherence, from self-analysis to baths of self-pity. In the process, Miss Gallant's book bounces from high comedy to low, from pure pathos to arch New Yorkerish chatter. But neither heroine nor style ever loses the sharp wit that provides both with rare bite and rarer balance...
...cartoonist's imagination, the ladies who belong to garden clubs are a Begonia Mafia who gather in print dresses and flowered hats to chatter about mulch and prettification. In some ways, of course, the ladies are responsible for their own image...
...shares on the New York Stock Exchange. Yet by Thursday afternoon the barometric Dow-Jones industrial average had fallen 33 points to a seven-year low of 685. On Friday, prices rallied briskly enough to send the Dow average up 17 points to 702. The rise stirred some cautious chatter among brokers and analysts that the market might be, in Wall Street's convoluted jargon, "bottoming...