Word: drawled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Berlin's press camp breezed a pretty young ex-WAC introduced as Vivian Cox, an "expert" attached to the Military Directorate. Sitting on a desk and dangling her long, nylon-clad legs, Miss Cox answered indignant newsmen's questions in a pleasant Southern drawl. How would "militaristic" be defined, asked one reporter. Replied Miss Cox: "It's the way the Germans have of waging war." How would "democratic" be defined? Said Miss Cox: "Everything American people think and call democratic." Was the order different in principle from Nazi book burnings? No, not in Miss...
...sharp voice of a Yankee was unmistakable. It was followed by the drawl of a Southern Negro: "Some Yankee named Ol' John Brown, he raised de debil back in Virginny and freed de niggers all over town; how he want to kick up such dizziness! Nigger business ain't white-folks' business...
...hard life of a Point plebe did next to nothing to Doc's impish, hillbillyish charm. He still managed to have fun. When he laughed, his mouth spread as wide as an oven door. He had a drawl that could pass for Amos & Andy's Kingfish, and an easy line of chatter about his important "social contacts...
Confusion spread through their forces. A Messerschmitt pilot landed near Verona, found himself looking into the guns of a squad of U.S. soldiers and heard a Yankee voice drawl, "Climb down, brother, it's old-home week." Cabled TIME Correspondent Reg Ingraham : "At a road junction I saw a dozen dead Germans sprawled grotesquely in the dust beside wrecked vehicles and one dead mule. They had run into an American road block while trying to escape north ward." By the 21st day of the offensive, 120,000 of the estimated 250,000 Germans in Italy were prisoners. The chance...
This hodgepodge of Basic English, pid gin French and Southern drawl, punctuated by flyers' gestures, is the lingua franca in use at a U.S. Army school for French Army aviation cadets. Before they arrived at Hawthorne Field in Orangeburg, S.C., the French trainees, fresh from service abroad, were taught 40 hours of Basic English. Meanwhile the field's American instructors were given a short course in French. But when the two groups met in the pressing routine of learning to fly, rote-learned vocabularies vanished in the propwash...