Word: drawled
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Last week Congressmen heard a drawl out of the past. Texas' Representative Martin Dies, first chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, was back on a well-worn trail. Dies, who returned to the House in 1952 after an absence of seven years, introduced a bill making it a crime to belong to the Communist Party in the U.S. Maximum penalty: ten years in prison and $10,000 fine. Although five similar bills are already resting in committee pigeonholes, Dies was hopeful. Cried he: "It will once and for all end this issue...
...learned, virtually no race incidents at posts. Swimming pools, athletics, post exchanges, movies-and work-are shared (although Negroes are generally "discouraged" from attending white dances). At Camp Lejeune, N.C., Nichols saw a white Marine waiter approach a billiards-playing Negro sergeant and ask, in a respectful Southern drawl: "May I get you something, sir?" A Negro chaplain offhandedly told Nichols: "I'm just another chaplain; fellows come to see me regardless of race." A Negro Air Force psychiatrist said he had successfully treated several difficult mental cases involving the wives of white officers...
...creation of a 27-year-old North Carolina singer and former teacher named Andy Griffith, is a straight monologue purporting to be a wandering hillbilly's wide-eyed reactions to his first sight of a crowded college stadium, and is notable chiefly for Griffith's relentless rural drawl. Sample...
Round Three. Snead, who had tried twelve times and failed to win the Open, jubilantly figured he had plumbed Oakmont's secret. In his best hillbilly drawl, Sam explained: "You gotta sneak up on these holes. Effen you clamber and clank up on 'em, they're liable to turn around and bite you." By the 45th hole, Snead had a one-stroke lead. But at the end of the round, Hogan, playing in his shirtsleeves now, had the lead back-by one stroke-with a 73 to Snead...
...modest Surgeon Blalock. who speaks (in a soft Georgia drawl) as precisely as he operates, is the first to point out that the case of the blue baby is only one of many abnormalities of the heart, some innate, some acquired later in life, which challenge surgery. Ever since he succeeded, at the age of 41, to the prized chair of surgery at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Blalock has been attacking these problems in his study, in the laboratory, in the operating theater and the lecture hall. He is concentrating now on valves inside the heart itself...