Word: chitchatted
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...Importer Edward Weiss has completely sold out his stock of Viennese fortunetelling Tarot cards. Across the nation, the sale of Ouija boards has tripled in the past year, even the Harvard University Co-op sells out whenever it stocks them. Zodiac sign guessing has become part of the social chitchat, and fashion magazines, such as Harper's Bazaar and Town & Country, have yielded to the fad, started regular monthly horoscope columns...
Hazarding Revenge. The regime's riposte was quick. Snapped a party zealot: "What the party needs is unity and not intellectuals who produce neither bread nor steel but only chitchat." Six of the more outspoken students were suspended from the university, and Kolakowski was expelled from the party and accused of a long list of "crimes" including having "sat down to tea with Cardinal Wyszynski," the Polish primate, and having had a prolonged meeting with American Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski of Columbia University. When a group of Poland's leading artists and writers wrote letters to the Politburo demanding...
When the Sherman Adams scandal broke, Mollenhoff adopted the relatively simple strategy of bracing Mrs. Adams at home. After a bit of chitchat, he calmly asked, "Could I see the rug?," a reference to the Oriental rug that Adams was rumored to have improperly accepted. "No, I hadn't better show it to you," replied the innocent Mrs. Adams, thereby confirming its existence. Mollenhoff said a polite goodbye and soon splashed the whole story of the gifts across his papers...
...Beatles' manager, discoverer, and cagey promoter par excellence, struggled out of a sickbed and enplaned for Manhattan "to assess the situation." The Beatles, after all, were due to begin a 14-city U.S. tour in Chicago this weekend. Epstein has had to deal with the Beatles' foxy chitchat before. "Show business," they once said, "belongs to the Jews; it's part of the Jewish religion." In New York, Epstein coolly declared that Lennon himself was getting a little religion. "John," he announced at a press conference, "is deeply concerned, and regrets that people with certain religious beliefs...
...detail that always mark conversations between good friends." He got it. "India and the U.S.," replied Mrs. Gandhi, "cannot and should not take each other for granted or allow their relations to drift." Later she said of the President: "He goes right to the point without a lot of chitchat beforehand. I like that. I like to talk business first and then have the pleasantries later if there is any time for them...