Word: drawling
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...distinctly recall his appearance and mannerisms. One was Bessie Brewer, the rooming-house manager, who recalls quite clearly the killer's looks, height (about 6 ft.), age (30-32), build (roughly 165 Ibs. and slender) and accent ("He spoke just like any other Memphian," i.e., with a drawl). Other witnesses recounted in detail how a man of that description ran from the rooming house at the time of the shooting (6:01 p.m.), leaped into a white Mustang with no front license plate (all Tennessee cars have two), and then "laid rubber" up the road. Those clues-plus...
Despite his marked eastern Virginia drawl, Spong's knowledgeable discussions of the South's economic growth and Virginia's rapid urbanization show that he is quite different from the rural bosses who built their power in the South on segregation, economic stagnation, and a restricted electorate. The freshman Senator likes to emphasize his break with traditional Southern politics by exclaiming, with feigned astonishment and a trace of pride, "Why, did you know that I'm the first Virginia Senator ever elected from a city...
...campaign. During his two-day tour of Pennsylvania's industrial heartland, his audience appeared to be largely lower-middle-class suburbanites. Also, a few well-dressed men sporting John Birch Society pins trailed him everywhere. After George finished a hominy-and-homily speech in his best backwoods drawl, one Pennsylvania supporter boomed: "Wallace is a new Messiah...
...squad that was coached by Paul ("Bear") Bryant, 54-who currently, of course, is head coach at Alabama. What's more, Stallings was Bryant's assistant for seven seasons at Alabama before he took over at A. & M. in 1965. Like Bear, he talks in a soft drawl, and his Bible is a notebook filled with "everything I've heard Coach Bryant say in the 13 years I've known...
...annual sales of $872 million, Genesco Chairman W. Maxey Jarman can fairly claim to be a business expert. Yet Jarman is going back to school. He recently struggled to jot down answers to questions on a long series of statements, spoken in everything from pure Bronx to a Southern drawl, on a tape recording prepared by the Xerox Corp. "I thought I was a pretty good listener," Jarman said after sampling the 21-hour session. "Then I took that test and found out I wasn't." Jarman has company. Staffers from some 600 firms have been taking lessons from...