Palaver

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Oh, if in National Palaver (as the Africans name it), such blessedness is verily found, what tyrant would deny it to Son of Adam!

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  • And we had a chatty obit column called "Cadaver Palaver." —  nancynall.com
  • Nigeria shot its first film, "Palaver" (Trouble), in 1904, and its home movie industry has been creating it ever since. —  Reuters: Top News
  • 'Palaver' was at last 'set' by the late lamented David Hopkins, consul for the Bights, in the presence of a British cruiser and two American ships of war The weather resumed its old mood, a mixture in equal parts of 'Smokes' and of Harmatan or Scirocco. —  To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
  • Oh, if in National Palaver (as the Africans name it), such blessedness is verily found, what tyrant would deny it to Son of Adam! —  The French Revolution
  • In some cases we had to design our own implementations of XMPP services, like the Palaver group chat server. —  Planet Jabber
 

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