Word: chatter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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King and Navratilova, the top-seeded doubles team, delighted the crowd with lively chatter and antics, but good communication and steady play kept them in control...
...real name is William Henry Edwards III, and for the last ten years or so he has proctored exams at Harvard, usually in Memorial Hall. But while everyone has heard his low-voiced chatter and chuckled at his never-changing exam demeanor, few know very much about him. What does Mr. Test do after the last blue book is in? How can you make a career out of proctoring? Does Mr. Test have full-time job? Is he a CIA agent in disguise? No one knows for sure...
Tuesday afternoon, in the elegant, ornately chandeliered lobby of the Palmer House, and in the nearby Conrad Hilton, English professors in herringbone jackets, with copies of Goethe or Günter Grass occasionally protruding from their pockets, chatter about irony, ambiguity and Erich Auerbach's theories of mimesis. A babble of French and German and Spanish fills the air. Nervous young Ph.D. candidates whiz past, heading for the Job Information Center on the fourth floor of Palmer House, where a giant board carries notices of late-breaking job openings. An October bulletin had listed only 375 job openings...
...Rockefeller scientists realized that any treatment for this genetic disease, which affects perhaps 2 million people around the world, had to be directed at stopping the characteristic sickling, or distortion, of the red blood cells that occurs after they unload their cargo of oxygen. But how? During cocktail-party chatter, Lab Director Cerami learned from a colleague that a byproduct of urea-a chemical called cyanate-can prevent sickling. Tests on both animals and humans confirmed this, but the cyanate also had toxic side effects on the nervous system. So the Rockefeller scientists suggested adding the cyanate directly...
...Honfleur" for example is a relatively simple harbor scene with two sailboats, one red, one blue, at the right foreground, but the painting is not just pretty. When Binet paints this kind of subject, one hears a chatter of Edwardian polite conversation. With Malet, though, though, it is the screaming gull one imagines...