Word: chitchatting
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...June 20 conversation with Nixon. They revealed that the only discussion of Watergate occurred just after the chitchat about Ely?and where the hum began. Said Haldeman's notes: "What is our counterattack? PR [public relations] offensive to top this. Hit the opposition w/ their activities ... Do they justify this less than stealing Pentagon Papers ...? We should be on the attack for diversion...
...mother's apartment, which is empty during the day while his mother works. Barney supplies his own bottle of J & B and buys his own glasses in Bloomingdale's so Mom won't discover any traces. "Are you married?" he asks, trying to make chitchat. "Mr. Navazio assumes I am married," replies the businesslike Elaine. "I assume what I want." Unfortunately for purposes of the tryst, the only thing Barney can assume is a defensive, feckless...
After ten long weeks, 64 witnesses and many thousands of pages of testimony, the pivotal question in the trial of the Harrisburg Seven remained unanswered: When does chitchat become conspiracy...
...perspective. "If a student here at Texas were to turn in a term paper where the gap between data and conclusions was as wide as that between the Pentagon study and the newspaper stories, he would expect to be flunked." Roche scoffed at the study as "third-echelon chitchat," adding: "The Pentagon has this immense welfare program: aid to dependent colonels. They sit around over there and work up contingency plans...
...format that has become tiresomely predictable in the hands of others, Dick Cavett at 34 has produced the best mixture of literate repartee, information, entertainment and urbane wit to be found on late-night television. Those who dig good-natured buffoonery and the chitchat of West Coast showfolk go for Competitor Merv Griffin. Viewers who want to see briskly organized quasi-journalistic interviews watch David Frost's excellent syndicated talk show, a two-time Emmy Award winner. Those who tune in Carson do so mainly to watch a consummate comedian scoring off guests who might as well be dummies...