palavering

Thank God they'd done most of their palavering on the porch, or outside on the lawn.

Ryder knew the palavering was at an end.

"Then we'll drop him over without any palavering, unless our clerical-looking castaway has the burial service at sea by heart."

The night he had seen Andy and Benny's Da' palavering.

He then said, "While I'm palavering and dillying, I'm putting them out of business."

Anyhow, after some palavering among the bench, the Prosecutor, and my counsel, the presiding judge announced that the court would now rise; there was an adjournment till the afternoon, when evidence would be taken.

The promised Senator finally arrived with his entourage and was received with all due honors; he turned out to be a man of tact, because he did not enter into little chats with us, the usual "palavering" between white man and savage.

Comments made by senators in breaks from yesterday's continuous palavering suggest that the fast track proposal is, in the words of the NYT , "foundering," with a number of Senate Republicans bucking their leadership to complain that the House managers are entitled to more time to make their case against President Clinton.