Word: drawl
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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...
...angrily exclaimed: "Is there no white politician I can trust?" Jesse Jackson, director of Chicago's Operation PUSH, called Carter's views "a throwback to Hitlerian racism." Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind., declared: "We've created a Frankenstein's monster with a Southern drawl, a more cultured version of the old Confederate at the schoolhouse door." Added Civil Rights Activist Bayard Rustin of New York: "He is only giving ammunition to those who would divide America. [He has] a big smile with no heart...
...burn the Watergate tapes. Muriel Humphrey, who heard secondhand that Hubert had decided to run for President in 1968, sent him a sarcastic telegram: "Let me know if I can be of help." And a woman overnight guest at the L.B.J. ranch was awakened in bed by a familiar drawl, "Move over−this is yore President...