Word: chitchatted
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...sources are treated as equal. The recollections of an unnamed secretary repeating thirdhand gossip are given the same weight as on-the-record comments from actual witnesses. (And sometimes more weight.) This ascribes far too much authority to what may be nothing more than idle gossip or office chitchat. It also fails to account for sources who may have their own axes to grind...
...Several hundred white, mainly lower-middle-class Southern Californians arrive in dusty pickups and weathered sedans to confront what they say is a criminal invasion of America. They park single file along a marshy field on the San Diego-Tijuana border. Soon the men and women are engaged in chitchat typical of a social event. Their crimson bumper stickers proclaim WE WANT ORDER ON OUR BORDER, a demand that nearby U.S. Border Patrol agents work hard to enforce. Some of the 800 officers, who nightly nab upwards of 1,500 immigrants in this sector alone, buzz by in spotter choppers...
...occasion of its 60th anniversary, the Hollywood Reporter solicited testimonials or comparable chitchat from some of Tinseltown's leading lights. Guess who contributed the following: "This town is a back-stabbing, scum- sucking, small-minded town, but thanks for the money...
...airline disasters. The Air Line Pilots Association warned that pilots might disable their voice recorders to prevent future "invasion of their privacy" but later added that legislation to ban the release of tapes might be proposed instead. What jittery airline passengers were supposed to make of the crew's chitchat, no one could...
Women in the speedy suburbs need a guilt-free place to gather. Old-fashioned women's clubs no longer seem to fill the bill. The country-club lunch -- a large helping of chitchat served with a garnish of innuendo -- is too fattening and "unsupportive." Self-employed or with part-time jobs, with homes to run and volunteer work to do, what woman can spare three hours for the afternoon bridge club? "Even though there's been a revolution," says instructor Anne Grossman, a part owner of the Pennington Jazzercise Center, "we women have been taught that you don't waste...