Word: drawl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were confronting the same scenes she faced back in the days of Jimmy Who?small, undemonstrative, show crowds. Beneath a brilliant autumn sky, a tense-faced Rosalynn offered her usual blend of sugar and steel. "I'm very proud of Jimmy." she said in her soft drawl. "He has a solid record of achievement. He's proved his leadership." Pestered all day with questions about Kennedy, Rosalynn said repeatedly: "The last thing I heard the Senator say was that he expected the President to be renominated. I take him at his word. If he changes it maybe...
Yeager dips out of Wolfe's pages as the undisputed king of the right stuff, the man whose no-sweat, West Virginia drawl sounds like the archetype for modern airlinese ("We've got a little ol' red light up here on the control panel that's tryin' to tell us that the landin' gears're not... uh ... lockin' into position"). He is also the book's main foil, a member of a vanishing breed of hot-rock pilot in an age of increasingly automated flight...
...chief of Mental Health Services (MHS) at the University Health Services (UHS), prides himself on his awareness of the little things that go on around the college. "Students don't usually think much about it," the 20 year Harvard veteran tells you in what remains of a childhood Southern drawl, "but over here, we know the difference between Eliot and Winthrop House." Why? "Because we have...
...pulls into the driveway of the spacious four-bedroom, $36,000 house that he and his wife Simone have just bought and renovated. Three beautiful almond-eyed children rush up to greet him. "Gimmee some Co-ak," shouts 5½-year-old Thienan (nicknamed Firecracker) in a disconcerting Southern drawl. "I speak Vietnamese to him and he answers me in English," says Dr. Bui. Thien Nga, who at 3½ is nearly as tall as her brother, and Jo Ann, 2, both born in the U.S., compete for Bui's attention. The household also includes 14-year-old Loan...
...that he's one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet, with a quick wit, a dry Arkansas drawl, and the best sense of humor this side of North Little Rock. You can say that he had a passion for running the football, and for playing the game, that surpasses any passion most people have for anything their whole lives. And you can say that he had the most pure running talent of any back ever to attend Harvard University. And that he never got a fair shake here...