Word: drawling
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...telephone atop Washington's airport control tower jangled, and a Texas drawl exhorted, "Damn it, I've got a Senator up there somewhere on Northwest's Flight 300. He's two hours overdue and I want him down quick. He's got to vote. You better be awful sure he's not stacked up there." Minutes after Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson's telephone call one afternoon last week, Minnesota's airbound Senator Hubert Humphrey landed and was whisked across the Potomac in a Capitol police squad car, sirens ayowl. He arrived...
Angel with a Drawl. Even fueling the Skyrocket was an unearthly business. Men dressed in hoods with glass faceplates, plastic coveralls and heavy gloves worked more than three hours before dawn to do the job. Writes Bridgeman of the first time he saw it done: "The minus-297-degree-below-zero liquid oxygen was introduced into one of the large twin tanks that sit two inches apart from each other. If the liquid oxygen should be contaminated, it would blow the plane, trailer, crew and spectators off the desert floor . . . Once in the tank, the liquid oxygen boiled off continuously...
...came over the radio: "Is that better, son?" Yeager, flying chase in an F-86 jet, had screened the sun. It was Bridgeman's introduction to Yeager. From then on, he hovers over many of Bridgeman's flights, a calm, wisecracking guardian angel with a West Virginia drawl...
Tomorrow afternoon, just before 3 p.m., Coach Norman Shepard (above right) will lean into a huddle of varsity baseball players and drawl, as he has before every game this season, "This is the one we want, boys--now let's go get it." A moment later, the best Harvard baseball team in over 20 years will take the field against Yale in a game which will decide the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball championship...
...pleasant, distinct voice, Miss Froug projects an case that is a delight to watch. Her oil-mad father is played by David James, who flashes a jaunty smile, a hybrid of Maurice Chevalier and the elder Fairbanks. Complete with wild tie and ten gallon hat, James has perfected his drawl, making him a convincing Southern magnate...