Word: drawl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...haired dynamo. After she whipped through Maine, Senator Edmund Muskie called Carter to say in awe: "Everywhere I go, your Aunt Sissy is there." She is in particular demand on the senior-citizen circuit, but she delights all audiences, hauling her own bags and declaring in a soft, honeyed drawl: "Hi, I'm Jimmy Carter's Aunt Sissy. I hope you'll vote for my boy for President...
...Southern cuisine. Associate Editor Spencer Davidson visited the Deep South for the first time since serving as Atlanta bureau chief in the 1960s-and returned North startled at the changes in Birmingham. Washington Correspondent Simmons Fentress, who did much of the political reporting, speaks with a pronounced North Carolina drawl, but a Mississippi lady told him, "I knew you weren't from the South." Washington Correspondent Arthur White toured the South for several weeks to report on the good life. One memorable locale: Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp...
Grow up and accept our lovely drawl. Hopefully you'll be hearing lots more of it soon...
...fact is that not since Lyndon Johnson-who liked to go to the well, nail coonskins to walls and keep the creeks from rising-has the nation harked to a presidential candidate whose voice tintinnabulates with the sound of the South. Compared with Jimmy Carter's soft Georgia drawl, however, L.B.J.'s Pedernales twang was absolutely abrasive...
...that was forgotten when he stepped on the stage. In his soft southern drawl he told how his daddy taught him to play and sing, and how it was time for us to get back together again, and about his Christian faith and his little daughter in the 60 per cent black school...