Word: chatteringly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chatter about Twitter escalated into a virtual roar two weeks ago during the South by Southwest multimedia festival in Austin, Tex., when the barebones service owned by Blogger founder Evan Williams, 34, was named the best blogging tool and attendees used it to meet up at parties. Since then, the fawning attention to the seven-month-old service has come full-circle as reviewers have begun to realize how boring most people's lives really are. (As if YouTube's gallery of puppy and kitten videos hadn't already driven that point home.) Nonetheless, Twitter has been the top term...
...sneakers. She settles in a chair, spreads out her notes, and mentally reviews material from the previous class. “Umefanya nini wikendi?” she asks the others, as they take a seat at the round table. After a few minutes of laid-back Swahili chatter about their weekends, Pillsbury stands up and heads toward the blackboard. It’s time for her to begin teaching.Pillsbury is one-fourth of the Swahili Teaching Fellow (TF) crew, all of whom are undergraduates this year. “I really like the opportunity to expose other people...
...centuries-old Shor bazaar has changed little from the days when it was thronged with Silk Road traders. In the narrow, twisting alleyways of the bird market, drab mud-brick shops burst with the vibrant plumage of parakeets and fighting quails, while the air is filled with the bright chatter of songbirds, the favored pets of Kabul residents. Handcrafted bamboo and wire cages, festooned with glass beads, dangle from every doorway, and the fragrance of cardamom-laced green tea beckons passersby into tiny chai shops. As bird enthusiasts compare notes on how best to train a pigeon to turn...
Hickenlooper doesn't feel so obligated, and he isn't offering any theories about the string of events that have strung Denver out for months, diverting cocktail chatter away from the usual Range Rovers, real estate, skiing and where to get the best carrot juice. Major crime is down, the 2008 Democratic National Convention is coming to town, and the polls have been kind, so the mayor says he's feeling fine. He does remark that even "with all this bad news, people still like to live here...
...bounds of what is considered a museum” as being at the heart of the event’s relaxed atmosphere. The usual hush of the galleries was replaced with the strum of sophomore Jonathan M. Jackson ’09’s guitar and the chatter of the students discussing the works on the walls...