Word: drawl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voltage U.S. appliance work in a 220-volt British house, he finds he has been cunningly outwitted: Britain uses 50-cycle current instead of the 60-cycle found in the U.S. This causes 60-cycle U.S. washers and driers to wash and dry feebly, produces a querulous drawl in 60-cycle phonographs and tape recorders...
...Senate's new Rule XXII was the personal product of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. As such, it represented a middle way between the Senate's Southerners, who hold with the idea of limitless debate, and Senate liberals, who would impose cloture at the drop of a drawl. The Johnson-sponsored rule will...
...members had no sooner gathered in Washington for their first meeting since the 1958 elections than California's Stevensonite Paul Ziffren drew the battle lines. In view of the sweeping national character of the Democratic election victory, said he in effect, the party had better forget its Southern drawl in favor of a Yankee political twang. From that point on, the Democrats spent most of their time skirmishing over the issues of North v. South -with about the usual results...
...girls from Vassar the transition involved other adjustments. The big name lecturer was decidedly new, and it took some time for one girl to get over the shock of Cleanth Brooks asking her in a soft southern drawl, "Are you happy at Yale...
...dance which shows Green Eyes trying to go backwards in time" to avoid having committed his crime, it is hard to think of any actor and director who would be capable of it.) But Scott, with his mobile, graceful body, his vaguely West Indian accent, his bland, venomous drawl, has combined his own imagination with Genet's, and made a new creation...