Word: chatterly
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...live with fear and blood as easily as other places cope with traffic jams and smog, the battle was terrifying. There was no warning as the gangs of Muslim militiamen, many dressed in civvies and cloth masks, swept into West Beirut to fight the Lebanese Army soldiers. The dreaded chatter of automatic rifles cleared the streets, trapping thousands in homes and offices. Those who dared peek from behind curtains or doorways saw flashes of chaos: a gunman scrambling madly, a car ablaze, someone shouting something to somebody out of sight...
...self-heating structure will open formally at the end of this month, when local temperatures typically hover at 20° or 30°F. Still, the designers of the ingenious heating system, Henry Eggert and Howard McKew of Shooshanian Engineering Associates of Boston, are confident that teeth will not chatter nor pipes freeze. Indeed, they insist, the eight-story, 880,000-sq.-ft., redbrick Transportation Building will stay a comfortable 72°F all year round...
...until then almost always a killer. Two months later the spotlight focused on the naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews, whose hunt for dinosaur and other ancient fossil remains in the Gobi Desert had fascinated the nation. In its second year, long before the id and the superego had become the chatter of the cocktail hour, TIME devoted a cover story to the controversial theories of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis...
...Soviet air defense force is apparently far less competent than thought. The first group of interceptors that scrambled over the Kamchatka Peninsula never could find Flight 007. Military officials attending the International Institute for Strategic Studies meeting in Ottawa last week commented on the "juvenile" level of radio chatter by the Soviet pilots and their apparent confusion about what they should do. "The question arises," said Stephen Larrabee, a member of the Institute for East-West Security Studies, "whether the finger on the nuclear trigger is equally uncertain...
...after Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone had overruled his own intelligence advisers, who wanted to release only summaries. Japanese intelligence officials feared that public playing of the tape would alert the Soviets to their methods of gathering data. It did; by late in the week, Japanese recordings of Soviet pilots' chatter had dropped two-thirds, because the Soviets had changed their radio frequencies and codes. In both Japan and the U.S., however, political leaders decided the world simply had to be presented with irrefutable evidence of the Soviets' guilt...