Word: chatteringly
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...opera, based on an Elizabeth Enright story, almost jolted the overflow (1,300) audience out of their seats, left them applauding wildly. Composer Bucci's score was lushly melodic, reminiscent in the sweeping emotional climaxes of both Puccini and Menotti, and pricked by dissonances which underscored the shrill chatter of Laura and Tracy...
...screened porch in the residence of the U.S. ambassador in green and summery Ottawa, two tall, greying men stood elbow to elbow one evening last week, each intent upon the other. While cocktail-party chatter echoed in other rooms, John George Diefenbaker, the Prime Minister of Canada, talked, gestured, sipped from a glass of orange juice. John Foster Dulles, the U.S. Secretary of State, cradled a rye highball in his hand as he nodded, smiled, listened. Thus casually, top officials of the world's two most neighborly nations began to explore the subtle new relationship that must come about...
...fouls. But he can still hit a baseball with deadly precision, is second in the league in batting (.342), homers (21), and runs batted in (67). Giant castoff Shortstop Al Dark, 34, is hitting a solid .295, holds the infield together with his big glove and his spark-plugging chatter. Even Walker Cooper, the Cards' great catcher of the '40s, is creaking his 42-year-old bones off the bench to pinch-hit home an occasional...
...written his ten questions on the blackboard than twelve of his 16 students began following an old Spanish custom by discussing the questions aloud and threshing out their answers. During the whole two hours they peered at one another's papers, passed around notes, kept up a constant chatter. McNaughton begged in vain for silence. When he asked three of the most recalcitrant students to move to other desks, one flatly refused. Finally, the desperate professor implored his interpreter to intervene. Scandalized, the interpreter declared that he could not possibly tell his social superiors how to behave...
Congressional chatter about cutting the $72 billion Federal budget has so far centered on defense, foreign-aid, schools and health-and-welfare expenditures. Last week in Houston one of the nation's biggest cotton men, Lamar Fleming Jr., board chairman of Anderson, Clayton...