Word: chatters
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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FELIX FRANKFURTER REMINISCES. More than 50 hours of recorded talk in answer to questions from a Columbia University historian show the many sides of the waspish, brainy lawyer and teacher whom F.D.R. elevated to the Supreme Court. Sometimes flat, more often incisive. Frankfurter's chatter is sure to supply many a footnote to the history...
...Bottle. For twelve hours the chatter of automatic weapons was punctuated by the deeper thud of shells from Congolese armored cars. Pitch-darkness and bad marksmanship limited the casualties to one Tunisian and four Congolese dead, eleven Tunisians and 30 Congolese wounded. With morning, firing finally stopped, and British General Henry Alexander, commander in chief of the Ghanaian army, appeared...
...challenger was Harold Wilson, chancellor in Gaitskell's "Shadow Cabinet." At 44, "Little Harold" (as he is known in political chatter to differentiate him from "Big Harold" Macmillan) is rated the brightest but most nakedly ambitious of Labor's younger generation. Though he opposes unilateral disarmament as vigorously as Gaitskell himself does (in fact, he helped write Gaitskell's pro-NATO defense plank). Little Harold saw a chance for political advancement in the unilateralist rebellion, offered himself as leader on a vague program of compromise. But when the moment came, the usually glib Wilson stumbled...
...Murray Hill laboratory 25 miles away, the red flashes could be clearly seen with the naked eye, and they registered strongly on photomultiplier tubes. Bell Labs, whose primary interest is in communication, looks forward to perfecting long-reaching maser beams that could carry everything from telephone chatter to as many as 10 million TV programs...
...blue skirts mingled with black-haired Ghanaians in flowing brown and gold robes. Swiss Frauen sported delicate lace caps, and Icelanders regally balanced gold diadems with trailing white veils. Here and there through the colorful throng could be seen the somber black habit of a nun. Remarkably little feminine chatter disturbed the solemnity of the occasion: the twelfth International Congress of Midwives...