Word: nasalized
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...Yale biologist announces he has synthesized a substance that, if placed in the world's water supply, will create peace on earth forever, as well as quadruple the productivity of all soil, clear the nasal passages and the Suez Canai, and act as a non-polluting automobile fuel...
...ASSEMBLED a list of about 50 questions, and passed them on to a Hughes aide. About 48 hours later, the phone rang at 11 a.m., and the flat, nasal voice at the other end identified itself as that of Howard Hughes. That started weeks of titillation, intrigue, maneuvering, exhaustion and sheer damn foolishness. We were on a first-name basis after the second call, but his calls never seemed to have an end or a beginning. They were, in essence, monologues, in which he made a case for holding off the story until new financing for TWA could be arranged...
...Philadelphia Eagles' Billy Walik caught a Giant punt and broke loose for a 45-yd. runback. ABC-TV Commentator Howard Cosell spoke up in his distinctive nasal twang: "While we were walking up to the booth tonight, my colleague, Dandy Don Meredith, said: 'Howard, you watch, Walik is going to break a punt tonight.' " To which Colleague Meredith cheerfully replied: "Now, Hahrd, Ah didn't say that. But if you say Ah said it, Ah'll stick with it." Pause. "Hahrd, why do you always do that to me?" The gang in the press...
Like a Tennessee warbler, the electric guitar flutters downward in graceful slides and turns. The country fiddle scratches out a polite howdy. And the nasal, melancholy baritone begins to sing...
...minor members of the Dudgeon family (notably James Cromwell as Dick's nasal and stupid brother Christy), the officer and soldiers, and the Indians all lend welcome color to the production. And where Shaw has called for the offstage sound of the Dead March from Handel's Saul, Ritchard has brought a real costumed band of piccolos, brass and drums right on stage. And he has appended a musical epilogue to Shaw's wildly cheering townspeople. After a performance of "Yankee Doodle," a group launches into William Billings' patriotic hymn "Chester"-a most fitting choice, for Billings was a Bostonian...