Word: drawl
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...didn't manage to become the most powerful--or at least most quoted--student at Harvard by becoming the president of the Undergraduate Council. That's quite alright, because the UC isn't even the favorite extracurricular activity of Sterling Price Adams Darling Jr. '01. With a Southern drawl and strict no-jeans policy, he seems suited for cotillions and cotton plantations, not a throng of 1,700 Latin students who laugh at his name, tell and retell legends about him and hang on his every necktie--but that's where Darling most wants...
...good time. "They look confused," Wolfe told FM, "but they're drunk and they don't care. We have fun." That fun evades Harvard, where, given the latent aggressiveness within males, the College's seeming emasculation is utterly misguided. With a narrowed brow and an exaggerated backwoods drawl, Wolfe warns Harvard, "You better let your boys go hunting...
Bush has a Texas drawl, but he was born here, and his grandfather represented the state in the U.S. Senate. Still, Connecticut got onboard the Straight Talk Express early. Before South Carolina and Michigan voted, polls showed McCain surging to a 13-point lead. The state is winner-take-all, so that's 25 delegates in one swoop...
Despite his inexperience, he pacified the New York press with his easy Oklahoman drawl and had a hot hand from behind...
...course there is Buckley himself, with his darting tongue and aristocratic drawl. The final broadcast shows clips of Johnny Carson and Robin Williams hilariously impersonating Buckley. But neither pretender could put an interviewee off balance like the Firing Line host, who at last week's taping leaned in to one of his guests, the liberal New York City politician Mark Green, and said, "You've been on the show close to 100 times over the years. Tell me, Mark, have you learned anything...