Word: drawl
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...regularly visits the wounded at hospitals, talking to them in his Virginia drawl with a pipe clenched between his teeth, which produces such Pullerisms as "biz-ouack" for bivouack, "Nitmitz" for Nimitz. Before an attack he spends days with his men encouraging them and carefully inspecting their weapons. They will follow him to hell...
...m.p.h., with their guns blazing. As they pulled up at the end of the field a burst of ground flak caught the Major's plane. Red flames began to lick out behind as he fought his way back up to altitude. Then Beckham's Florida drawl crackled through the interplane radio...
...noon, dapper, coal-black President-elect William Vacarat Shadrach Tubman took over from President Roosevelt's onetime host and guest, Edwin J. Barclay (TIME, June 7). Then the new President knelt to ask the blessing of God upon his people. His lazy drawl poured out over the multitude, reminding all that Liberia had been founded under God and on Christian principles...
First witness to come before the Committee with the industry's plea that it be regulated solely by the States was the Insurance Executive Association's president and chief spokesman, Edward L. Williams. Lawyer Williams, whose 25 years of Manhattan practice have not dented his Carolina drawl, was all set to sound off about ''smear campaigns" and "lies."* But shrewd Joe O'Mahoney snapped him off when he had no more than shouted "They is none" in answer to a query about the slush fund. The Senator was more interested in other facts. Some...
...mother was killed by a snake. Mrs. Wells worked hard on the bird's diction, avoiding profanity, and taught Raffles to speak only on cue (a process involving bribery with the bird's favorite food-grapes). A major crisis developed when Raffles picked up a Southern drawl from the Wells's Negro maid, but that crisis passed when the maid picked up its English accent...