Word: chatteringly
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Emergency responders, however, make up only part of this constellation of radio stars. My scanner tracks the chatter of taxi transmissions after a Red Sox game and the gastronomic gurgle at McDonald’s restaurants. Even the school bus fleet makes for a fine show. On the first day of school, I listened to dozens of little kids board the wrong buses and forget how to get home. Each time, the dispatchers directed the drivers to return the kids to the schools even if that delayed the next pickup by an hour. Here was a group of people genuinely...
...been organizing intramurals and mentoring a boy from Dorchester; mine has been writing for The Crimson. His intellect and strong sense of justice hide underneath a façade of goofy humor and rebelliousness; my sense of humor jumps out from behind a screen of passionate literary and political chatter...
Although South African President Thabo Mbeki has another four years left in office, the issue of who should succeed him flared up last week. The chatter came after the Durban High Court convicted Schabir Shaik, a friend and financial adviser to Deputy President Jacob Zuma, on fraud and corruption charges. After a riveting eight-month trial and a three-day verdict broadcast live on television and radio, Judge Hillary Squires found Shaik guilty on all three charges against him. Squires announced Shaik had paid some $180,000 to Zuma in bribes between 1995 and 2001 in order to keep...
...mails started to flood in?the first from TIME's Baghdad bureau, others from Sydney, London, Washington and New York. In my fumbled excitement, I misdialed my brother's phone number three times. Then Steven Gerrard, Liverpool's captain, lifted the trophy, and behind the Cantonese chatter of the TV commentators I could just make out 40,000 Liverpudlian voices singing their club's anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone. And that's when I started...
...famous actress falls silent, unable to speak of and to the world's brutalities and banalities. Her nurse fills the emptiness with chipper chatter, eventually talking herself into her patient's tragic view. Bergman has never been more bleak, austere, enigmatic or hypnotic...