Word: chatteringly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...big” grant package to student groups. After the legislation was introduced, the council appeared to dissolve into disorder, and members darted across the room conferring with one another. Several times a clearly agitated Haddock had to bang his gavel and call for order over the chatter of council members. At one point, Greenfield made a motion to have SAC Chair Ryan A. Petersen ’08 ejected “out of the chamber for being out of order.” Haddock rejected the motion. “People are being offensive... I think...
...Bassline” completely exhausted. While the exciting dance displays helped to combat my fatigue, a combination of delays and technical difficulties detracted from what might have otherwise been an exhilarating event. The event started over half an hour late. Some audience members contented themselves with chatter, while others looked at their watches and groaned intermittently. Finally, a hip-hop beat started to thump, and three of Expressions’ co-directors stepped on stage to introduce their show as “a big crunk party.” The medley of 14 dance numbers lived...
Shortly before Representative Tom DeLay announced he would leave Congress by summer, half a dozen advisers were on a conference call debating how to unveil their stunning secret. Suddenly, DeLay's Texas twang silenced the chatter. "Anybody wanna hear what I wanna do?" he asked mischievously...
...message about the protests. Enter the deejays. When his nanny told him that she and other babysitters in the neighborhood were inspired to attend the march after hearing so much about it on the radio, UCLA Professor Abel Valenzuela realized how influential the talk shows were. In other cases, chatter on the airwaves about protests elsewhere inspired left-out listeners to become accidental activists. All day long on March 22, Martha Ramirez, a tax preparer and mother of four in Kansas City, Mo., heard a deejay tell a string of curious callers that while other cities would be holding protests...
...sports, music lessons and sleep, I sometimes think my life is easier than theirs. That's partly because I have some tools they lack, but it's also because I think I know an abyss when I see one. Facebook is one giant time vortex--a black hole of chatter--and for many kids it's hard to find an exit. Under its influence, 90 minutes of homework ends up taking four to five hours, says Dr. Alan Goodwin, principal of Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Md. Those sites are "a huge distraction...