Word: drawled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Fish controls all of Arizona’s state parks; essentially, it is the state’s interior department, and it regulates everything from hunting to setting aside natural areas for protection. The Commission’s Chairman is Joe Melton, a man from Yuma with a deep drawl who (if his dialect at the meeting is representative of habit) seems to be under the impression that first-, second-, and third-person plural of the verb “to be?...
...Even if there is no particular superstar, Jonah C. Priour ’09 is definitely the show’s darling as the shy and hickish cowboy with his ceaseless spout of “Mama says.” His exaggerated western drawl, slouched walk, and eager country boy expressions are indisputably the icing of the show. Priour seems born for the part, effortlessly transitioning from his role this past March as the slick Billy Flynn in “Chicago.”Good choreography is a necessary force for any musical...
...with its sober accounts of the doings of the inside-the-beltway?s real-life men in black, is entirely out to lunch. Sonnenfeld is a guy who believes that what?s left of America vitality - its life force, if you will - wears work boots, talks in a taciturn drawl and is not afflicted with attention deficit disorder when sex is mentioned...
Almusai's roommate, Neil Ball, 21, a junior from Logan County, W.Va., who has an Appalachian drawl, says their biggest problem has not been current events or differing tastes in wall dcor--Ball put up a seductive poster of Jessica Simpson, Almusai a portrait of King Abdullah--but "probably my accent." Kenny Ison, 20, a culinary-arts major from Point Pleasant, W.Va., happily recalls how his roommate, Hatim al-Garzaie, 21, invited him to sit on a rug spread on the floor and dine with a bunch of Saudi students by digging into communal pans of rice and meat...
...Begala cited the Democrats’ docile response to Republican fliers distributed in West Virginia during the 2004 election that suggested Democrats would ban the Bible. He said that his former boss would have responded more aggressively to that charge. Begala broke out in a full-blown Clinton drawl and said that—if confronted by those charges—the famously plain-spoken president would have stood up, pointed to the Bible, and declared, “I need this book more than any of you in this room.” The charismatic Clinton might...