Word: drawl
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DIED. SHELBY FOOTE, 88, Civil War historian who became a national celebrity--much to his befuddlement--after lending his courtly eloquence, encyclopedic expertise and honeyed Mississippi drawl to 89 appearances in the 1990 Ken Burns TV series on the war; in Memphis, Tenn. He wrote six novels, but his most famous book was a panoramic, three-volume history of the war, written over 20 years with an old-fashioned ink-dipped pen. A crackling storyteller and vivid portraitist, the onetime recluse wowed 40 million viewers of the PBS documentary, garnering critics' kudos and a slew of marriage proposals...
Tomlinson, 60, a former Reader's Digest editor with a soft Appalachian drawl, tells TIME he had hoped to bring quiet change. "I worked for a year and a half inside the system to rectify" the bias issue, he says. Yet his moves--hiring a G.O.P. activist to monitor the political balance of the news show Now with Bill Moyers, bringing in CPB ombudsmen to police bias, shepherding the conservative Journal Editorial Report onto air--rankled some within and outside public broadcasting. John Lawson, president of the Association of Public Television Stations, says the problem...
...Zielinski hadn't gone to West Point, he probably would have been president of a fraternity. He is pathologically social, both liked and looked up to by fellow cadets, especially those who bleed Army green. "Z?" they say. "He's huah," delivering the words with the appropriate Southern drawl--"heezoowah"--as though a Northern accent wouldn't do justice to someone so ... infantry. Upperclassmen give him equal deference. One of his fellow cadets asks him, straight-faced, "Can I still call you Z when you're a general...
...name itself suggests a formula. Alan J. Wilkis ’04, a singer/songwriter/guitarist from New York with an incongruous drawl, idolizes Frank Zappa and calls Bach “the shit...
...cowboy britches all in a knot, hootin’ and hollerin’ over the Crimson editorial condemning Michael E. Kopko ’07’s proposed Dormaid service. “This is nothing short of Marxist horse dung,” drawl the bloggers, arguing that our fair paper “attacks entrepreneurship” (hey…isn’t that a French word you just used...