Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Palmoticeva Street Milovan Djilas (with or without British Socialism's help) appeared safe for the moment. But Belgrade's gossip, neither confirmed nor denied by the political police, probably as a means of further demoralizing their victim, has it that a special dossier of Djilas' "crimes" is being prepared, and that the police have been doing a lot of talking to Djilas' old friend, onetime Partisan Hero (and Tito Biographer) Vladimir Dedijer...
Secret VTOL. Nothing has been released about Ryan's X-13 "Vertijet" which is still a highly classified project. But the technical public got a quick look at it when it was shipped to Edwards, carefully wrapped (see cut). Airplane-industry gossip has been swapping bits of information about it ever since...
...themselves. Basically, Fourteen is a social animal. He is intrigued by the notion of "personality." When asked about her best friend, a girl will say: "I have a whole bunch of best friends." For the girls especially, this is the age of communication. School is a place to gossip in; home is a place to telephone from...
...Cellar. For many a month, the supersecrecy surrounding the construction and operation of Rudow's radar station had fed the gossip of bored Americans in the occupied city. There were those who remembered a civilian engineer hired to supervise the job; he had quit in disgust because the blueprints seemed so crazy. "Why build a cellar big enough to drive through with a dump truck?" he asked, and was told to mind his own business. Others recalled seeing friends whom they knew to be engineers suddenly appearing at the station wearing the insignia of the U.S. Army Signal Corps...
...starting point, Goodman argues for the greater commitment of both teacher and student in the academic relationship. His insistence on the need of dedication to propositions is echoed by the editors of i.e. in their editorial, "The Place of Opposition": "A society of no open conflicts, where gossip is the only expression of feeling, is unhealthy. If an emotion does not exhaust itself on its proper object, it can never exhaust itself and becomes an endless spin of talk. We need more directness, more active awareness...