Word: drawls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Matthews hardly gives the impression of a crusader. He sweats heavily, walks with a limp, talks in a backwoods drawl, and his shirt often spills out of his baggy pants. But he loves the swamps, which he explored as a child on fishing trips with his father. "All I want," he told TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron, "is for children in years to come to have the same pleasures I've had in these waters...
...informality and wry, self-effacing wit. Pulling into small towns, he has been known to pop out of his Cadillac and announce: "Here I am, folks, in living color." In rural areas he can be as folksy as the soybean farmers in his audience. "I know," he will drawl, "that you don't want to hear this on a hot day. But somebody wrote this speech for me and said it was a 'major policy address.' So I guess I've got to give...
...changed in contemporars fiction," she smiles. "It's no longer a question of seduction and betrayal--there's just activity." Much of her talk was filled with a light-hearted rapport with her listeners. Gracious, delicate, charming, her Southern accent murdering a figure like Lovelace with a characteristic drawl of "ba-a-ad news," Hardwick was able to communicate much of her own personality to her audience. Always sympathetic to them, she would excuse them for not having each novel she discussed at their fingertips, and she imparted a warm femininity through a disarming smile whenever she lost her place...
Other lobbying techniques were more straightforward than the Texas drawl. Jackets, ties, and newly exposed knees cloaked the student efforts in the garments of respectability. The lobbyists were also careful to prepare their arguments well...
...COMPENSATE for their numerical weakness, one Minnesota student perfected a Texas drawl before meeting with Senator John Towers's (R-Texas) legislative assistant...