Word: chatterly
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...Soviet impulses to claim all inventions as their own. So they often do. Carter Wilson, who wrote the book, wants to make an invariably temperate and reasonable liberal under fire sound exciting, a difficult job, and Geoffrey Platt struggles hard to spread his unruly paste of comedian's chatter far enough to fill out a major role. Platt is clever...
...reports. They were received as a quavering, singsong radio signal, then translated by a computer into an endless series of letters printed on a broad band of paper. Out of the apparently meaningless melange of characters, Mariner men in JPL's control room deciphered their spacecraft's chatter...
...answered the man from the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, "we're proud too." The Manhattan audience that had assembled for the first of the Cleveland Orchestra's current series of three New York concerts greeted this dialogue with faint, perfunctory applause. It was in no mood to encourage chatter: there was a great orchestra onstage waiting to be heard...
...long-distance commuter, frazzled by freeway traffic and weary of club-car chatter, has known for some time that there was a way out of it all. He could buy a helicopter. All it took was money-usually about $45,000 of it. In late 1961 Hughes Tool Co. produced a turbine-powered two-seater model that sold for $22,500, but few commuters could afford even such a bargain. Last week Hughes made the sky attainable...
...radio frequencies are so limited (23 channels, from 26,965 megacycles to 27,255 megacycles) that they must be used on a shared basis, like a telephone party line. Result: in any area where CB is the thing, the air waves are choked up day and night with the chatter of garrulous hobbyists...