Word: chatteringly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...moment passed quietly Tuesday night, with only the sound of idle bar chatter, ESPN highlights of the days’ playoff baseball games on television and hundreds of cigarettes being simultaneously extinguished to mark the abolition of smoking in all bars in Cambridge. I admit I am an occasional smoker, particularly at bars, but inconveniencing me or people whose clothes smell smoky at the end of a night is not the issue here. The real issue is that this law is an attempt by a group of meddling politicians and nosy puritans who would like to impose a sanitized, smoke...
...moment passed quietly Tuesday night, with only the sound of idle bar chatter, ESPN highlights of the days’ playoff baseball games on television and hundreds of cigarettes being simultaneously extinguished to mark the abolition of smoking in all bars in Cambridge. I admit I am an occasional smoker, particularly at bars, but inconveniencing me or people whose clothes smell smoky at the end of a night is not the issue here. The real issue is that this law is an attempt by a group of meddling politicians and nosy puritans who would like to impose a sanitized, smoke...
...chatter turns serious. “Where I’m from, three-miles-from-nowhere middle America, being in the Miss America pageant is astronomical. It’s your only chance out,” says Eric B. Hart ’03. “At Harvard people are so matter of fact about these things. Maybe we’re just used to people doing these huge things all the time...
...accusations of gamesmanship by Henin-Hardenne at the French Open. After the U.S. Open final, in which Henin-Hardenne again beat Clijsters, Kim's father Lei made the observation that it was unusual how Henin-Hardenne's "muscle mass has doubled." The Belgian media ran with the comment, fueling chatter about doping. Henin-Hardenne replied, "My only drug is work." But her coach Carlos Rodriguez couldn't resist a stronger verbal volley, saying: "Justine is better than...
...people power up and down the dial has become a self-perpetuating force. Earlier this year, tens of thousands of Bangkok citizens had their radios tuned to 96 FM, home to "Uniting to Help Each Other," when the show's usual excited chatter was replaced by the ominous notes of a military march. The army, which along with the government controls most of Thailand's radio stations, had abruptly pulled the 24-hour show off the air. Critics claim they were punishing the media group INN for barbs aimed at Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra that were made on another...