Word: chitchat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE WAS A PARTY at 27 Francis Ave. last Tuesday night--several hundred fairly young and wealthy Cambridge residents were crammed into a small clapboard house making political chitchat and waiting for the Cambridge Convention '75 candidates to come in from their election headquarters...
...house yesterday," Moore blurted out. "They kept me for an hour and questioned me. You know, they could have kept me for 72 hours if they had wanted to." Pogash thought she knew Moore too well to take her seriously and did not want to encourage her nonstop chitchat...
...Exam Needed. While some CB owners exchange aimless chitchat or jokes, the primary use for the sets, which have a range of about 15 miles, is to apprise other drivers of road hazards, weather conditions and emergencies. On the nation's highways this summer, auto-borne vacationers with CBs could get all this information-and a lot more. A family returning from Maine took a tip from a driver who called himself Thermidor and lucked into an exceptional lobster restaurant. Some of the CB messages are unembarrassedly commercial. A group of CB-assisted hookers plies one of the main...
This small, quick-witted novel about a Southern black girl's misadventures in Chicago is a tricky mixture of down-home storytelling and faculty-lounge chitchat. The storytelling is rich. The chitchat, consisting of philosophical jar gon in several languages, is rather brittle. The heroine, a rural Candide named Faith Cross, is told by her dying mother to find life's Good Thing. She seeks guidance from a swamp witch, a withered and warty old necromancer with one green and one yellow...
...Osborne article also reports that Ford is often "driven close to distraction" by President Nixon's newly developed tendency to waste his own time and that of others in Oval Office chitchat. This has sometimes led Ford "to break off their conversations." But Ford contends that he was misunderstood; he meant that he feels he sometimes takes up too much of the President's time and thus seeks a gracious way to cut such conversations short...