Word: chatteringly
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...berries and pink dianthus and lupine and wild roses, yarrow and wild strawberry and kitten ears and vetch. Though most campers swear that the forest is a world of green-muffled silence, it is actually full of noise: the constant cry of gulls and other water birds, the chit-chatter of squirrels and chipmunks and the hum of honey bees in the warm sun, the distant buzz of a motorboat, and the whine of a power saw biting into the big trees; the drone of an airplane far overhead, the growl of a lumber truck on a steep grade...
...Alberto Moravia, Two Women tells how a Roman grocer's widow (Loren), sick of the war and scared of the bombing, packs her bags and takes her teen-aged daughter (Eleonora Brown) back to the mountain hut where she was born. There they work the stony fields and chatter away the evenings with the peasant women...
...entertainment scene, many radio stations flipped the keys shut on their studio mikes, set their turntables to twirling eternally, hired the disk jockey to titillate the teen-ager with pointless prattle. But there are notable signs that the clatter of the platter is gradually being muted. Its replacement: serious chatter...
Died. Cedric Adams, 58, portly, nasal-voiced commentator, folksy columnist (In This Corner) for the Minneapolis Star for 25 years, who once simultaneously ran 54 radio shows, seven columns and eight television programs a week on chatter, news, and an uncanny ability to catnap at will; of a heart attack; in Austin, Minn...
...other people have smallpox. Du Roy, who plunged from the idealism of the resistance to light-fingered wealth in the black market, has turned to medicine out of guilt. The two men circle like scavengers over the asylum, searching for glints of God or reason in the chatter of psychotics and the mechanical responses of schizophrenics. Drouin zeroes in on a repellent, bandy-legged alcoholic named Van Welde, a war veteran in whom he sees the false and true heroes of all times -and in whom he finally recognizes an old, detested comrade in arms...