Word: drawling
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...lawyers will come before the bar on CBS. Monte Markham will try to erase the solid image of Raymond Burr in the title role of The New Perry Mason. Jimmy Stewart will display wits that are as quick as his drawl is slow as the country lawyer Hawkins, a sort of skinny Sam Ervin...
...leaned forward in his chair, his 76-year-old face a complexity of darting eyebrows, eyes intent but somehow distracted, and launched into a summary of what the Watergate hearings had taught him thus far. Haltingly, composing the phrases carefully in his mind, Ervin began in his broad Carolinian drawl: "Men upon whom for tune had smiled with beneficence and Who possessed great financial power, great political power and great governmental power, undertook to nullify the laws of man and the laws of God for the purpose of gaining what his tory will call a very temporary political advantage. Those...
Viral pneumonia is sometimes known, as Senator Sam Ervin Jr. referred to it in his lip-smackin' drawl, as "walkin' pneumonia." Often, as Dr. David J. Sencer of the U.S. Center for Disease Control pointed out, it is no worse than a bad cold or a touch of flu. But for some victims, especially those over 50, the bug that hospitalized President Nixon last week is a misery-making, debilitating illness. Victims can be reassured by the fact that viral pneumonia proves fatal in less than 1% of cases...
Martha, meanwhile, again held an impromptu press conference on the streets of Manhattan. "John Mitchell was the honest one in the whole lousy bunch," she said in a tense drawl. "And whom do you think he has been protecting? Mr. President he has been protecting-under no uncertain circumstances. They tried to make my husband the fall guy, but he's the good...
...Petty race, ask him which of his many records−750 victories over 15 years, $1,411,788 in prize money, four Grand National championships−he takes the most pride in. Richard, a lanky, rawboned dude, chomps his cheap cigar and says in his best potlikker drawl: "I guess in still bein' alive...