Word: chatters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accurate, uncluttered view of the universe, radio astronomy needs at least one UHF window that is not blocked by scattered TV chatter. And if the FCC keeps Channel 37 clear of commercial broadcasts in the U.S., the International Telecommunications Union, which meets this fall in Geneva, is likely to do the same for the rest of the free world...
Block the Rejection. Medical men who hate eager chatter about "breakthroughs" because it raises false hopes in patients are willing to make one exception. They concede that it will indeed be a major breakthrough when a way is found to tune down the immune mechanism just enough so that a transplant will take and the patient will still have a defense against infectious diseases...
Dora Harmsworth is frigid, while her husband Malcolm is a great prig. To make up for the lack of physical love, the pair chatter incessantly about love in the abstract...
They run the biggest textile plant in Central America, the largest fishing fleet in Venezuela, the greatest shipyard in Brazil. They chatter in soprano Spanish with the first families at El Salvador's Club Salvadoreno, mine copper in Bolivia, spin yarn in Argentina, produce drugs in Mexico. The resourceful investors from Japan, venturing where U.S. businessmen have become reluctant to tread of late, have made Latin America their No. 1 in vestment target. Though Japan's total investment of some $390 million is hardly in the same league with the U.S. commitment of $8.2 billion in Latin America...
Many of Oxford's social activities, however, come properly under the heading of education, particularly political education (the most satisfied Americans at Oxford are the ones who have come to study politics). If this is considered a glorification of gossip, what is the difference between bright chatter in a preceptorial and bright chatter in the Junior Common Rooms, the clubs, the dining rooms and cafeterias...