Word: chatteringly
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...shipping through the 250-mile-wide Mozambique Channel between Madagascar and the African coast. German agents had filtered into the island to stir native resistance against the British. Japanese planes had scouted the territory unchallenged. The radio at Tananarive, Madagascar's capital, had kept up a steady chatter of Vichyssoise, inveighing against Britain, the U.S., Jews and De Gaulle, giving prominence to every Axis victory...
...Ambassador Carlton J. H. Hayes, Catholic scholar from Columbia University, stayed on the job and had an interview with Serrano during the time the Nazis broadcast, inaccurately, that he had flown to Gibraltar. Hayes's able diplomacy and Rooseveltian chatter about U.S. post-war tourist plans were seen by some as forerunners of a more friendly attitude from Franco. But Franco has remained neutral for other sound reasons: 1) An open break with the Allies would ruin Falange propaganda and espionage work in the Western Hemisphere; 2) Spain would become a potential invasion point for the Allies; 3) Franco...
...roll of sacred music (the Marines found no trace of several Catholic nuns who had been on the islands). The clatter of the Jap machine gun, firing at Lieut. Le-François, first told Colonel Carlson that his landing had been detected. Then the Marines heard the hard chatter of truck and motorcycle engines, the flat crack of snipers' bullets from the palms. One by one the snipers were killed, but they did not fall from the trees. For many days, so the handsome and friendly Polynesians on the island told Colonel Carlson, the Japs had been strapped...
Songstress Hildegarde, known to radio and New York night life as the witty and scintillating international chanteuse, will be interviewed over the Crimson Network at 9:45 o'clock in a program entitled "Chatter and Songs by Hildegarde". Network rumor has if that she will accompany herself on the piano...
...when something extraordinary might happen. It did. The Nazis were caught flat-footed on their airfield by a tight-flying contingent of twelve Douglas twin-motored bombers, half of them manned by Americans, half by Britons, which sent the Germans scuttling for cover amid bomb bursts and the firecracker chatter of machine guns...