Word: drawl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charles Duke's jubilant Southern drawl crackled across 240,000 miles of space last week, all the world breathed a sigh of relief. After a nerve-racking delay of nearly six hours, during which NASA officials came close to calling off Apollo 16's lunar landing, Astronauts Duke and John Young had brought the landing craft Orion to a nearly perfect touchdown only 200 yards off target in the moon's mountain-ringed Descartes region. It was man's fifth successful landing on the lunar surface, and the first in the highlands, the moon...
U.S.A.F., 36, who will accompany Young to the surface of the moon, makes an ideal foil for his more taciturn skipper. Born and reared in the Carolinas, the easygoing space rookie still speaks in a casual drawl. He has also managed to achieve a space first of sorts. He asked for-and got -grits (dehydrated) on his breakfast menu for this month's moon trip. But Duke's playfulness is deceptive. He was class valedictorian in prep school (Admiral Farragut Academy, St. Petersburg, Fla.), graduated with honors from the U.S. Naval Academy and later earned a master...
Camera clicks mixed with the sound of Clay's clean Missouri drawl. "That is also why we decided that we would come down on the mass communications media, and come down on them hard. And I think that anyone who has read the position of the Black Caucus," Clay continued, "as it relates to mass communications is aware...
...Garden of Eden. Indeed, the Sebring race milieu can be something of a shambles-Woodstock without music. But as U.S. auto-racing events go, the Sebring also has touches of Continental class. It is characterized more by ascots than bandannas; French, Italian and British accents mingle with the Southern drawl; in the parking lots, truck campers rest cheek by cowl with Lamborghinis and Maseratis...
Camera clicks mixed with the sound of Clay's clean Missouri drawl. "That is also why we decided that we would come down on the mass communications media, and come down on them hard. And I think that anyone who has read the position of the Black Caucus," Clay continued, "as it relates to mass communications is aware...