Word: drawled
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...Oveta knew her faults and her talents better than father Culp did. She ironed out her central-Texas drawl with elocution lessons, cultivated a taste for Modigliani, Bartok and yellow roses-as well as gowns by Valentina and Bergdorf Goodman hats.* She learned how to manage a vast (27-room), vaguely Georgian mansion. She learned about arcchitecture and decoration, collected antique silver. She acted in amateur theatricals, became a leader in social work, a Junior Leaguer, a patroness of the symphony...
...swelling chorus of voices which have been prescribing methods for revival of the Democratic Party was added last week the soft Georgia drawl of Senator Richard Russell. Speaking at a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Raleigh, N.C., the South's favorite pre-convention candidate in 1952 spelled out the current thinking of Southern Democrats...
...shoot. But Howe just takes his time, works his way toward the cage, and then finally lets go a perfect shot to tie things up for us. When he came back to the bench, I asked him why he had taken so much time. Howe tells me, in that drawl of his: 'Ah jes wanted to make sure.'" Adds Coach Ivan: "He usually does make sure...
...Administration." He warned that there would be no fixes. Implementing that policy, Brownell's able deputy, William Rogers, startled an old friend who telephoned from Texas (on Rogers' first day in office) to ask for friendly treatment on a tax case. Rogers cut him off in mid-drawl, told him to pursue the case on its merits...
...dazzled them in basketball. Still in her teens, she burst into the headlines as the hit of the 1932 Olympic Games, winning the javelin throw and the 80-meter hurdles. She disdained lipstick, plastered her hair back, talked out of the side of her mouth with a thick Texas drawl and riveted reporters with such remarks as: "Are you the guy who took pictures of my feet in Jersey...