Word: drawling
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...edge of the littered desk. Sitting behind the desk, Alabama's Governor George Corley Wallace, 44, seemed charged with electric intensity. His eyes, burning like lasers, were dark, deep, and eyebrowed over with black bands. His voice was deceptively soft, grace-noted with a Southern drawl, yet tinged with anxiety...
Rage & Reason. The children make pathetic mistakes. "Whose name begins with L?" a teacher asks in kindly New Yorkese. "Mine," comes the answer in a soft Virginia drawl. The boy, aged nine, is named Earl. Yet by now the kids are scrawling their names in script, and one teacher has his charges deep in simple "science experiments." The chief effect is a bright-eyed attentiveness worthy of West Point. "They've got the ability," says Teacher Lou Mercado. "All they need is the teaching. Motivation here is very high. We don't get the ordinary discipline problems...
Byron De La Beckwith fancied himself a real Southern gentleman. He dressed with casual care, always bowed deeply from the waist when passing friends, punctuated his drawl with soft "suhs." It therefore came as a consider able shock to some of his Greenwood. Miss., acquaintances when "Delay" (after his middle names) Beckwith, 42, was charged last week with the slaying of N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers. Said Greenwood's Mayor Charles E. Sampson: "We are just stunned. I don't think he's the type. He would always greet you with a smile...
...deep Southern drawl, Atlanta's Police Chief Herbert T. Jenkins spoke in agreement. "If a police officer is so thinskinned that he is afraid of being called a 'nigger lover' because he is doing his duty, then he is in the wrong kind of business and should follow some other vocation . . . The time has come, it is here now, my friends, when an individual cannot be denied any public or official right or privilege because he is a Negro. The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court is the law of the land. We might disagree on many...
...Mullin, a burly, bespectacled physiologist with a West Texas drawl, came from a professorship at the University of Chicago medical school to become president of Shimer. By virtue of having taught doctors, he had one driving conviction-that professional men by and large are too narrowly educated, and need a broad liberal schooling before going into graduate schools...