Word: chatteringly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...there's also a fair amount of idle chatter--and a widespread presumption in the media--about the congenital strengths that Republicans have and Democrats lack in presidential contests. The $200 million Bush campaign bankroll is cited. The 1988 demolition of Michael Dukakis is remembered. Democrats are eternally tangled in factions; Republicans just seem more solid and, well, American (if your definition of "American" was frozen in 1954). But there is growing evidence that the election of 2004 is inventing its own rules. Indeed, the Democratic primaries have demolished--delightfully--most of what passes for conventional wisdom these days...
...resembling a gong in its dining hall, but no one knows whether it was more than a round, bronze symbol. The gong had not been heard to ring since Adams’ losing war with Pforzheimer House, now more than a decade in the past. Listen closely to the chatter in Mather’s dingy halls of power: those who once talked of earth-shaking malletted tones now talk of “gong-related program activities.” Forget Kirkland—did any Houses in the region have functioning gongs ready to resound at any interhouse...
Auletta called television news pundits “bloviators,” and blamed them for filling the airwaves with empty opinions and chatter...
Studio executives, no strangers to melodrama, have begun to talk about movie piracy the way FBI agents talk about terrorism: they watch the Web for "chatter," they embed films with hidden "fingerprints," and they speak without irony about "changing hearts and minds." They even use night-vision goggles. It's not going too far to say they are completely paranoid, which doesn't mean they are wrong...
...French officials have nothing tangible to show for the abundance of caution. The passenger suspected of being a Tunisian radical turned out to be a child who coincidentally shared the same name. Likewise, the British Airways flight to Dulles--a route that had also been mentioned in electronic chatter--netted no arrests...