Word: drawled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state's just too conservative.' " Thus, in Florida, where Kennedy is far more popular than his programs, Smathers has the best of both worlds. To this he adds a public manner that can charm the nuts off the coconut palms, and, as he travels in Florida, a drawl that sounds more and more as if he had been weaned on a Dixie...
...world's best mimic, equipped with an enormous range of accents, inflections and dialects-including five kinds of cockney, Mayfair pukka, stiff upper BBC, Oxford, Cambridge, Yorkshire, Lancashire, West Country, Highland Scots, Edinburgh Scots, Glaswegian Scots, Tyneside Geordie, Northern Ireland, Southern Ireland, French, Mitteleuropa, American Twang, American Drawl, American Snob, Canadian, Australian and three kinds of Indian. He fools everybody. Everybody but his friends, that is; they are wise to him. When they call him up and a sweet old German nanny answers, they say, "Come off it, you old bastard." The trouble is that there really...
Rightly or wrongly, the transplanted whites from Algeria are identified with the plastic bombings and brutal murders of the S.A.O. The average Frenchman also dislikes them on personal grounds. The Algerian accent, which combines a throaty Arab intonation with a nasal drawl, falls unpleasantly on French ears. The pieds-noirs are considered pushy, noisy, boastful and vulgar. A Nice restaurateur says: "You cannot spend ten minutes with them before the subject of their sexual prowess comes up. Their language and gestures are so raw that it's not surprising that no one, from high society to workers, invites pieds...
...smaller and still smaller, the presence of a single particle of dust can make larger and still larger trouble. The strictest housekeeper in all Sandia is Texas-born Physicist Willis J. Whitfield, creator of the Whitfield Ultra-Clean Room. "I thought about dust particles," he says with a slight drawl. "Where are these rascals generated? Where do they go?" Once he answered his own questions Physicist Whitfield decided that conventional industrial clean rooms are wrong in principle...
...many in the audience, the film seemed a bit like a 2¼-hour filibuster in black and white. But there were some highlights, notable among them the performance of Charles Laughton as South Carolina's Senator Seab Cooley-in accents learned from careful study of the drawl of Mississippi's Senator John Stennis. The audience chuckled ruefully when Henry Fonda defined "a Washington, D.C., kind of lie: that's where I'm lying but he knows that I'm lying and he knows that I know that he knows that I'm lying...