Word: drawled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from his accent and the numerous homey aphorisms scattered through his speech ("You got to get people together so they don't spit at each other on the sidewalk"), Charles Morgan Jr. doesn't sound like a Southern sheriff. First, he doesn't know the meaning of the word "drawl"--he talks non-stop, the words tumbling out of his mouth...
...decision-making beyond their official competence. More often than an ambassador may like, someone senior to him (including the Secretary) may jet practically into his embassy's backyard. And when he picks up his phone, that voice on the other end may come across in a familiar Texas drawl...
...long have you had your job? Oh, less than two years? Any property? But that's in your wife's name? A car? Oh, that's in your wife's name too?" To play her Lady Bird, Edie modulated her voice to a slow Pedernales drawl:'"I've been spending quite a lot of time in Washington," she began, "since Mr. Johnson and I became President." And how does she see her role now? "I want to say in all humility that ah made mah husband what he is today-rich." It was great...
...time on short notice. Instead of a meeting, Johnson produced a new short-notice request. As soon as possible, he said, he wanted to use Early Bird to broadcast a V-E anniversary speech direct to Europe. Three and one-half hours later, in a slow and measured drawl, he was chiding Charles de Gaulle live on British and Italian TV screens, and being taped for later rebroadcast in almost every other European nation...
National Names. Royster is a North Carolina boy who was shrewd enough not to shed all his country ways in the big city. He still has a fetching Southern drawl, a dry wit that takes people by surprise, and a name that stands out even in New York. Vermont's great-granddaddy, a practical man, decided to name his children after states in order to tell them apart. Along came Iowa Michigan Royster, Wisconsin Illinois, Arkansas Delaware, Virginia Carolina, Georgia Alabama, Nathaniel Confederate States. No hard feelings about Yankees; one boy was named Vermont Connecticut, and the name...