Word: drawled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this made more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about the actresses' accents: Attic Greek just does not mix with a Southern United States drawl...
...head the agency, World Bank President Eugene Black (TIME, June 25) tapped one of his own top lieutenants, Mississippi-born Robert L. (for Livingston) Garner, 61, who still talks in a deep Southern drawl, despite his 37 years as a Northern banker-businessman (vice president of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., General Foods Corp. and, since 1947, the World Bank). Garner's IFC starts with a fund of $78.4 million, hopes to prove that private enterprise in underdeveloped countries pays off, attract other investors who might normally be wary of investing in backward lands...
...James Lock & Co., suits from Savile Row's Henry Poole), an amusing storyteller, a man of omnivorous tastes, who sums up his chief delights (besides Shakespeare) as "the four Bs-banking, baseball, Balzac and bourbon." As he makes his rounds, he speaks in an irretrievable Southern drawl, mixes so well that he charms people no matter how anti-banker or anti-American they are apt to be. Once, at a state dinner given by Marshal Tito, the conversation through interpreters was dragging badly when Tito, rotundly resplendent in his dress uniform, asked Black if he might...
...this year's tornado season, and he began his hunting on April 15. He carries 500 lbs. of weather instruments and a radio altimeter. A movie camera takes continuous pictures of the airplane's flying instruments. Whenever he thinks it worthwhile, Cook talks, in his calm drawl, to a tape recorder...
Andrew Allen, 52, is a precise and practical man, with a windburned complexion and a flat drawl; he became Sunday school secretary of the Texas Baptist Convention in 1949, and since then has worked out his own theory of how to do his job. "Small units," he says crisply. "The small unit concept is what has built the Texas Sunday school system, and Sunday school is our best evangelistic opportunity. You build a church by building the Sunday school. When you reach people in Sunday school and teach them the Bible, you get the money; they want to expand...