Word: drawls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years I lived in Memphis, Tennessee, and had a Southern accent. Mine wasn't Applachian hillbilly-country music Southern, nor was it the soft-petalled Junior League variety. It was just a home-grown Mississippi River vintage '53 drawl. I liked it. Felt comfortable with it. Then I came to Harvard, and grudgingly, but inevitably, surrendered my natural speech...
That was two years ago. Now I have conscientiously weeded most Southernisms out of my speech: my roommate can still tell when I call home because I suddenly switch back into a modified drawl...
...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...