Word: chitchatted
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...seemed hurt by the whole thing, pointed out that Moses' wrathful action came just when Special Presidential Envoy Ellsworth Bunker was in Djakarta to see about tempering Sukarno's anti-American binge. The fact is that nobody really expects Bunker to budge the Bung with his diplomatic chitchat. Maybe there's something to be said for the Mosaic method...
...contrast, Goldwater's contingent seemed a shambles. The campaign management, directed by onetime Senator William Knowland, was at best unsteady. The schedule underwent constant change. The candidate rarely indulged in more than the most perfunctory chitchat with reporters. Barry shrouded himself in an impenetrable diffidence, acting for all the world like a reluctant dragon slayer. In his public appearances he hardly ever exhibited that electric quality which, for example, helped him hold the 1960 Republican National Convention in thrall. He seemed to stay on the defensive, endlessly trying to answer his enemies' charges that he wanted to sell...
Buried deep in Charles McHarry's chitchat column, "On the Town," in the morning New York Daily News, was this item: "Ali Rounj Culdip, the Maharaja of Estarh, is due in next week for a medical checkup. The three youngest of his 15 wives will accompany him." There was not a word of truth...
...economy soars past a $600 billion G.N.P. and more Americans live better than ever before, official Washington seems far more intrigued by the fact that it has rediscovered poverty. The plight of the poor provides lively chitchat for capital couples as they twist to Lester Lanin or uncork a bottle of Mouton-Rothschild. Party pros argue the election-year merits of the poverty issue as they slide their steak knives into a Chateaubriand. With some bitterness, Writer-Social Critic Michael Harrington observes: "I guess poverty has become fashionable...
...somewhat unusual occupation for a man who prides himself on being an intellectual, a patron of the arts and an enemy of orthodoxy in business. But Norton Simon, 56, the boss of Hunt Foods, is all of these. A well-groomed, soft-spoken man who is impatient with chitchat, Simon makes friends more quickly with ideas than with fellow businessmen, relentlessly questions the obvious, and declines to go by the book-he likes to write it himself. With a sort of business existentialism, he lives by what he calls the "philosophy of change"-a constant search for new situations that...