Word: chatterly
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...chatter among the Longhorn partisans about taking on a bunch of Ivy League intellects? "Naw, I don't hype any game anyway, not whether it's Texas A&M, Arkansas, Houston or Harvard." And what's more, he was quick to point out, Texas may have 48,000 students, "but you still need a 1200 on your boards to get in, whatever that may mean to folks up here...
...home run, he had to really knock it so that the outfielders couldn't chase it down. A smart outfield would make this doubly difficult by backing way out into the grass, for a dangerous hitter, sometimes so far that you couldn't even hear their between-pitch chatter...
...Reagan Administration has done little to dispel the glow. As part of his budget-cutting efforts, Reagan has proposed dismantling the U.S. Department of Energy that was set up four years ago as a watchdog of the nation's energy supplies. Meanwhile, widespread chatter about a worldwide oil "glut" has further calmed nerves, and proof of abundant supplies has been readily at hand at the gasoline pump, where prices have actually been falling...
...ubiquitous stench of the stagnant and deadly rain water that never evaporates from the gutters. The word "poverty" loses its meaning because there is so much of it. The people somehow lead stable lives in these worst possible conditions, and the life of the city never idles. The chatter of hawkers, the stylistic craft of fruit vendors, the music of both the faithful and the impious, and the imprecations of beggars never cease...
...another fixture of solemn English occasions, the reverent intonations of the late BBC commentator Richard Dimbleby, who whispered as if he might spoil someone's putt. It being morning-show time back in the States, the David Hartmans and Jane Pauleys, practiced in the smiling art of undemanding chatter, now reinforced the American journalistic hardhats in their vantage points along the parade route. Along with much inevitable pageant-babble, they provided useful notes of what was going on. Dan Rather, trying to sum it all up, decided that the Crown, like Britain, "endured," a view forgivably more optimistic...