Word: drawling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...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...