Word: chatteringly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Friends and staff members have maintained that Bush has been a Steady Eddie through the nearly ceaseless storms since his re-election, confident that history will treat him right and disinclined to sweat the day's headlines or chatter. But as he stares down one last campaign, the President suddenly seems to be all adrenaline and testosterone. It shows in his frenetic schedule and in his assertive choice of words but perhaps most especially in his body language as he tries to win over midterm voters by looking and sounding commanding--he's practically shaking voters by their lapels...
...pleasure of watching Federer play is that you can see him thinking out there," says sportscaster and ex-pro Mary Carillo. "You can watch him sizing up the situation and making adjustments in his game and changing something around, and he never did that against Nadal." Federer backhands the chatter about his lack of mental fortitude. "Nadal is just more obvious about his fighting qualities," he says. "I fight like crazy, even though it doesn't look like I am. Maybe because I have such a relaxed style of play...
...earning her MFA in fiction and an MA in theoretical linguistics, both from the University of Iowa, she and her husband spent five years teaching English in Southeast Asia - Malaysia, Japan, and Cambodia. "It was a time of great learning and great growth and great excitement," she says. "The chatter of everyday life fell away, and it allowed me to listen more fully to the stories I wanted to tell. It also allowed me to take risks that I wouldn't have probably been so likely to take if I felt more immediately a part of a literary community...
...frustration. She held it like a soldier would, but she might as well have been back in West Virginia, playing war with pop-guns. They had just crawled back to the humvee when Jessi heard a single, sharp gunshot, then silence, then the gunfire began to chatter, coming closer...
...designers agree that the best way to cap cube chatter is to move it. "To do that," says James Ludwig, director of design for Steelcase, "you need to create spaces for people to go." Steelcase is testing a concept called the Cell Cell, a phone booth fitted with reception boosters. Chatty colleagues might gravitate to the Dyadic Slice, designed for two, or hold brainstorming sessions in the Digital Yurt, whose sensor-triggered lighting oscillates with increased activity...