Word: hawing
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...nation cowers in fear at the crossover to come. Like its Achy Breaky ancestor, Redneck is such an exaggerated piece of cornpone--"I'm a redneck woman/I ain't no high class broad/I'm just a product of my raisin'/I say 'hey y'all' and 'Yee Haw'"--that it succeeds as both a genuine ode to hillbillies and a genuine joke about hillbillies. Wilson, who has obviously been studying her Shania Twain, sells the song hard, and with an endorsement from Kid Rock, who appears in the video, Redneck should rampage out of the South and dominate seventh-inning...
Contra dancing, described by aficionados as part Richard Simmons aerobics class, part yee-haw square dance, and part intergenerational social mixer, has found a group of devotees among the Yard dorms...
...actor and comedic singer-songwriter whose 1958 novelty hit, The Purple People Eater, about an alienlike creature, tapped into America's fascination with outer space and sold 3 million copies; of leukemia; in Nashville, Tenn. His string of wry country songs included the theme for TV's Hee Haw, but he had an equally successful career as a TV and movie actor--notably playing outlaw Ben Miller, who menaces Gary Cooper in High Noon, and a trail scout in the 1959-66 TV series Rawhide, which helped launch Clint Eastwood's career...
DIED. HARTLEY SHAWCROSS, 101, Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi war-crime trials; in Cowbeech, England. Known as Lord Shawcross after his 1959 appointment to the House of Lords, he served as Britain's Attorney General from 1945 to 1951, prosecuting traitors like William Joyce, a.k.a. Lord Haw-Haw, who broadcast Nazi propaganda from Germany. Of his work before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, he said, "There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his conscience...
...DIED. LORD SHAWCROSS, 101, Britain's chief prosecutor of Nazis at the Nuremberg war- crimes trials; in Cowbeech, England. Shawcross also prosecuted William Joyce, a Nazi propagandist better known as Lord Haw-Haw, and Klaus Fuchs and Alan Nunn May, physicists convicted of giving atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. He later lamented that the Nuremberg trials didn't deter Idi Amin and Pol Pot from their own "odious crimes...