Word: chatterly
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...throw the ball over the goddam plate and give the other man his chance." Then he paused and concluded: "That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." ' Or is it? Surely football is closer to the Zeitgeist, with its chatter of "long bombs" and marches downfield. Surely basketball with its constant scoring, or hockey with its eruptions of violence, is America's ideal spectator sport. The conservative, hidebound sport of baseball can offer no such qualities; scoring is rare, violence a matter of tempers, not policy. The game is an echo of a vanished...
...burning ambition that seems so vital to capturing the nation's highest office. So far, he is neither cultivating the people who could help him nor dropping those who might hurt him. In his speech forays, he often avoids reception lines, and he dislikes the handshaking and political chatter with influential regional politicians who will control many votes at the 1976 Republican National Convention. Moreover, he maintains a close friendship with Frank Sinatra (see PEOPLE), the high-living singer whose boorish conduct at Nixon's Inauguration festivities angered many top Republicans. Agnew and his wife Judy are frequent...
...austere reserve, such behavioral advice comes as a shock. "You've got to be terribly gay," orders Mrs. Woodhouse. "You've got to act like idiots." By which she means that an owner must put heavy emphasis on talking continuously. "I want to hear some inane chatter. Try to be a bit more silly...
...winner in months. The reason turns out to be pretty obvious, and Francis goes on to other things. Alas for faithful readers, the book offers a big scene in the bowels of a gold mine, dull exposition on how gold is obtained from rock, and some chatter about the racial question that makes one hope that wanderlust never leads Francis to a Navajo reservation...
...Juan in Hell. Without benefit of props, costumes or scenery Paul Henried, Ricardo Montalban, Edward Mulhare and Agnes Moorhead sizz'e through George Bernard Shaw's intellectual chatter in an uncommonly brilliant production of "Man and Superman's" long third...