Word: chatters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Machines are becoming almost as communicative as people-to the delight of big communications companies. Computers chatter over great distances, exchanging complex data in whirring tones, and telegraph and teletype clatter with increasing volume across the oceans. Such conversations between machines offer the communications companies their most exciting prospects for the future. Thus it was doubly disappointing to American Telephone and Telegraph that the U.S. Government last week shut it out of most of this business on the busy transatlantic circuits...
Mention Arevalo to a Guatemalan peasant (or to almost any Latin American peasant), and he will chatter excitedly, full of enthusiasm. A former professor of philosophy, Arevalo returned to Guatemala in 1944 when the brutal dictator Jorge Ubico was overthrown; braced by his proclaimed policy of "spiritual socialism," he was a natural choice to lead his country. Guatemalans remember Arevalo's presidency for land reforms and the organization of labor...
...look ugly. There should be two small dining rooms, both to satisfy the apparently large demand for small rooms in the present Houses, and to encourage special eating groups and small House organizations. There should be a House grill with enough space to allow for tables and midnight chatter...
Senator Smith announced for the Presidency late. She began her campaign only three days ago, shaking hands in 29-below weather in the northernmost counties of the state. She doesn't even like to talk politics: the 66-year-old Senator prefers to chatter about pie and the weather with the voters she runs across. But with every hands she shakes, deep in what Rockefeiler has conceded to be heavily Goldwater territory, where she has been campaigning, Senator Smith chips away at the Arizonian's margin...
Baldly stated, French Novelist Nathalie Sarraute's newest novel is a plotless collection of cultural chatter about an imaginary French novel. Like her own book, the new work is called The Golden Fruits. It is praised extravagantly by a few literary lions. Cultural toadies in Parisian salons begin to croak approvingly about it. A few foolish rebels dare suggest it is unreadable...