Word: chatters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...challenger was Harold Wilson, chancellor in Gaitskell's "Shadow Cabinet." At 44, "Little Harold" (as he is known in political chatter to differentiate him from "Big Harold" Macmillan) is rated the brightest but most nakedly ambitious of Labor's younger generation. Though he opposes unilateral disarmament as vigorously as Gaitskell himself does (in fact, he helped write Gaitskell's pro-NATO defense plank). Little Harold saw a chance for political advancement in the unilateralist rebellion, offered himself as leader on a vague program of compromise. But when the moment came, the usually glib Wilson stumbled...
...Murray Hill laboratory 25 miles away, the red flashes could be clearly seen with the naked eye, and they registered strongly on photomultiplier tubes. Bell Labs, whose primary interest is in communication, looks forward to perfecting long-reaching maser beams that could carry everything from telephone chatter to as many as 10 million TV programs...
...blue skirts mingled with black-haired Ghanaians in flowing brown and gold robes. Swiss Frauen sported delicate lace caps, and Icelanders regally balanced gold diadems with trailing white veils. Here and there through the colorful throng could be seen the somber black habit of a nun. Remarkably little feminine chatter disturbed the solemnity of the occasion: the twelfth International Congress of Midwives...
UNHERALDED and often unrecognized, Johnson swoops down on his installations, taste-tests meals, listens to customers' chatter. If he finds a dirty rest room, an undersized portion or a lippy waitress, he may call up an executive in the middle of the night to dress him down. Johnson also occasionally samples Manhattan nightclubs with his fourth wife, but has sold his 60-ft. yacht, no longer collects paintings. "My hobby," he says, "is to talk and eat food." His favorite food is ice cream, which he stoutly (205 Ibs.) maintains "is not fattening." He eats at least a cone...
...other hand, if Mr. Nixon becomes President, it will undoubtedly mean pajama parties in the East Room, rock-'n'-roll music blasting forth from the windows, empty Coke bottles all over the lawn, and the White House phone forever tied up with teen-age chatter...