Word: awfully
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...rural Oklahoma accent. He likes to talk to the countryfolk about "Momma" and "muh Dad," ("By gosh," said a farmer recently, "he calls his momma 'Momma.' I'd vote fer him fer no other reason than that!"), and he tosses in many an "Aw shucks" kind of reference to Oklahoma's revered Will Rogers. He claims that he is a close personal friend of Lyndon Johnson's and that therefore, if he is elected, he Can Do More for Oklahoma...
Jimmy Clark's curiosity takes an aw ful lot of satisfying. At 28, he is the youngest Grand Prix champion in history, and his income runs to $140,000 a year. Yet there he was last week, seeing how fast he could drive an untested car on a rain-drenched track outside Stuttgart, Germany-in something called the Solitude Grand Prix. The prize was far from grand-no championship points, no money to speak of (winner's purse: $1,500)-but Scotland's Clark still turned the afternoon into a breath-taking demonstration of his driving genius...
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Wright recalls that just before the attack he heard a voice from behind say. "Hey, I bet that's one of those smart Harvard guys." As he started to walk faster, the same voice said "Aw, the Harvard guy is scared...
...turned out to be the best woman slalomer in the world. In the "Criterium of the First Snow" at Val d'Isère, France, last month, Jean Saubert (rhymes with "Aw, Bert!") won the giant slalom and swept the women's combined Alpine championship. At Oberstaufen, Germany, two weeks ago, she split two slalom races, winning one and placing third in the second. Last week at Grindelwald, Switzerland, all of Europe's top skiers were on hand for the winter's biggest pre-Olympic competition. When lack of snow forced cancellation of the downhill race...