Word: twang
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Bill, an affable but serious businessman, says this with a smile and a slight West River twang. He brims with pride over his family's $4.5 million enterprise...
...coat, his fatigues stuffed into his boots, "Brad" would frequently abandon his desk at headquarters for flights to the front in a Piper Cub. There, he insisted on inspecting everything from forward outposts to latrines. Though not noted for eloquence, he enjoyed addressing the troops in his flat Missouri twang, and he gave them plain talk. "Fellows like me have been in this business a long time," he told a unit being trained for the D-day invasion...
...smiles, he looks like a younger Henry Fonda, at once aristocratic and plebian, handsome and ordinary. He hops on the back of a red pickup truck and moves to a small podium. "I'm George Bush" he says, "and I'd like your support." In a slow northeastern twang, he talks of issues and Iowa, occasionally pounding the podium and moving to the climax of his speech. "I'm optimistic about this country," he says. "I know we can turn things around." John Connally can go back to the ranch, Howard Baker and Bob Dole can go back...
...throwback to the days of black bags and horse-drawn buggies. In the 3½ years since he came to Feather Falls, he has been careening around its twisty roads in a flower-speckled '68 VW Bug pretty much day and night. Rose talks in an easy country twang that belies his Princeton (B.A. '69) and Baylor (M.D. '73) education. After serving his residency in an urban Oakland, Calif., hospital, he came to Feather Falls and found himself delivering goats, prescribing for sick dogs and sewing up deer attacked by dogs. All that, of course...
...Twang...