Word: chitchat
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Between long bouts of powder-room chitchat. The Echoing Grove commendably attempts to dig below the surface of life, but its well-manicured prose cuts into reality about as deeply as a nail file into California redwood...
Cigarettes and chitchat, it was agreed at a White House staff conference, can spoil the efficiency of any office. Out went the word to the 49 typists, stenographers, receptionists, filing clerks, etc. under the over-all eye of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams: no smoke & gossip sessions when on the job in the White House...
...neighbor casually: "Wasn't it too bad about the malaria at the camp?" "Yes," was the answer, "but he's all right now." "He?" "Yes-my son. He got malaria in Korea and had a relapse while he was visiting up here." As soon as this backyard chitchat was reported to Dr. Fritz, the puzzle was solved. The marine veteran of Korea got medical care, and spread the disease no more. The Lake Vera area was sprayed to kill off the last infected mosquitoes and leave the site safe for this year...
...British Electricity Authority and the Post Office (which runs Britain's telephone system) are both interested in Dr. Barlow's copper pipes. One promising use: to bring electric power, television and chitchat across the Channel from France...
...them are arty fellow travelers from the Bloomsbury set, and their spirits are as dank as their cellar studio apartments. Black sheep sons of wealthy parents, ersatz painters and poets, they are all fighters with the mouth who like to play at social revolution between bouts of faddish chitchat and casual fornication...