Word: drawled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Happy to be Back. A husky six-footer with a Texas drawl, Lawrence travels 25% of the time, works six ten-hour days a week at Continental, personally checks every day by interoffice phone on each of the airline's ten divisions. He will be happy to get back to Texas. He and his wife Jimmi met at a Texas sweet potato festival where she was a princess, have three Texas-born children, including an eleven-year-old boy whose name is State Rights...
Pale Blue Filler. Up in the broadcast booth, he was indeed some rambler, take it from Berra. He could not resist telling TV fans in his cornpone drawl every last detail of what they could see for themselves. Moreover, with a journalist's eye for firsts and a statistician's mania for the minutiae of baseball, he was fond of confiding to his listeners that, say, the bunt that had just been witnessed was the first ever laid down by a left-handed rightfielder in an August night game with two men on base...
Before every freshman football season, inquisitive fans pester coach Henry Lamar for an evaluation of his team. And every year Lamar gives them the same answer. "We're small," he says in his Virginia drawl, "but we're slow...
...sings the Star Spangled Banner, or local dignitaries deliver their greetings--the President is silent and deep in thought, often chewing gum as he awaits his turn to speak. He begins slowly and softly, with a serene look on his face. As he goes farther into the speech, his drawl becomes more obvious and his words more forceful; he induces a given response from the crowd with his own facial expressions--sometimes an angry scowl--and his multiple hand gestures. As the day wears on and he becomes increasingly tired, he pushes himself harder, and this is often noticeable...
...glamor girl. Her nose is a bit too long,.her mouth a bit too wide, her ankles a bit less than trim, and she is not outstanding at clotheshorseman-ship. She has a voice something like a brassy low note on a trumpet, and she speaks in a twanging drawl; friends comes out "frayans," affairs are "affa-yahs," hogs "hoags...