Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...women immerse themselves companionably every evening in the steaming vats of the city's 2,608 sento or public bathhouses. There Suzuki-san discusses the besuboru pennant race, and his wife, behind a flimsy partition (a late 19th century concession to Occidental prudery), catches up on the neighborhood gossip. The kids make the usual deafening racket but, as one sento enthusiast puts it knowingly, "When everybody is naked, camaraderie just naturally follows...
...News. Friends argued that their purchase was questionable for other reasons. Not only were they leaving good paying jobs with a prosperous mining-and construction-equipment business, but they were buying a paper that was losing money and readers as a result of its steady diet of back-fence gossip and trivia...
...lies, lies, lies! I never used the word homosexual!" It's like this, he explained: "I'm an Irishman and we have a lot of stories about fairies and leprechauns, and we also use the word fairy simply to say somebody is a gossip, an idle gossip...
...trash a night now," a California private detective admitted last week. "The way they use these carbons only once now, it's a cinch." Not all of the espionage work is underhand, of course: many companies regularly instruct salesmen and other fieldworkers to report back any news and gossip, also sift trade journals, advertisements and Government reports for additional wisps of information...
Arms Twisted. It might have been expected that a tough boss would be toughly sacked. But the real show-biz touch was to leave everything else to gossip and speculation. The first reaction was to invoke the adage that he who lives by the ratings can die by the ratings. A year ago, CBS's Nielsen rating lead was 22.5 to NBC's 18.8 and ABC's 17.6. But all this season the three networks have been in a near dead heat. Had Aubrey lost his magic? He had once made a purseful of profits from sows...