Word: lilt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When the issue came up in the Senate last week, Long was in vintage form, giving that he might receive. A few days before the vote, Long's chief aide ?raising the specter of financial ruin for Louisiana industry?forecast the proposal's future with a Southern lilt: "The industrial user's tax is d-a-i-d, dead." Yet when the measure came to a vote, the wily Long did not thwart the drive to make it 1-i-v-e, live. In exchange, he won Senate agreement on the key feature of his energy philosophy?rebating...
...sergeant in Europe, New York University Law School, a moderately successful private practice. He first got into politics during the 1952 Stevenson campaign. Koch served as a street speaker then, and again four years later, developing a style that is more haimish-homey-than sophisticated or rousing. A Yiddish lilt flavors his speech, and a phrasemaker...
John Manulis directs a spirited cast, whose dances and serenades sung with a touch of soul or a salsa lilt need the unlimited outdoor air to breath in. Performances are tonight and tomorrow at 8 pm, Saturday at 1:30 and 7:30 pm, in the Harvard YaRD. Tickets go for free at Holyoke Center...
...Wonder who your wives and girl friends are out with tonight?" cooed Tokyo Rose to GIs in the Pacific in World War II, hoping that her infamously seductive lilt would chip away at their morale. In fact, there never was a Tokyo Rose. The name was given by GIs to twelve or more English-speaking women who, beginning in 1942, regularly broadcast out of Tokyo and other points. By her own admission, one of the sultry voices belonged to Mrs. Iva Toguri d' Aquino, now 59, who operates a gift shop in Chicago-and is still thought...
...Windward Islands. But to bridge the gap between the fumbling amateur and the moderately competent seaman, C.S.Y. has its "sail-'n'-learn" program. An instructor is put on board: a local sailor from St. Vincent or its neighboring island Bequia (pronounced, with an unreproducible West Indian lilt, Beck-wee). His job is not to sail the boat, but to give advice, evaluate your skill, rate it for future charters, and briskly pull you out of trouble in emergencies-as when, on the third day out, I forgot to watch the course when setting trolls for barracuda and nearly...