Word: twang
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...closest to it all was Dallas Detective James Leavelle, who was handcuffed to Oswald while escorting the prisoner out of the city jail for transfer to a maximum security county cell. In a matter-of-fact Texas twang, Leavelle testified that "there was a man come from the crowd of reporters and photographers, right up in front of myself and Oswald. When he first dashed out from the crowd, I saw he had a pistol in his right hand, and he was raising his hand, getting ready to shoot. I reached to catch the man by his left shoulder...
...give new momentum to a course set by his predecessor. Yet, in tackling the policies and problems bequeathed to him, Johnson is also making it clear that he has his own way of doing things, and that his way is as different from Kennedy's as a Texas twang is from a broad...
Marshall, who never got to West Point, first took up soldiering at Virginia Military Institute, where his Pennsylvania twang immediately marked him as a stranger. The lowly "rat" was forced to squat over a bayonet; after 20 minutes Marshall fell and gashed his buttock but dutifully followed the code of silence. Marshall was a mediocre student but in his senior year was elected "first captain...
...plucked by a member of the light-fingered league in the I.R.T. was Journal Editor Vermont Connecticut Royster, a Raleigh, N.C., boy despite the Yankee twang to his name. To Royster, the loss of his credit cards, shopping lists and drugstore prescriptions, not to mention $100 "secreted in the back of our wallet against such grave emergencies as running out of expense-account money in San Antonio or St. Paul." turned out to have a leaven of unexpected value. "I use all kinds of incidents that happen to me when I'm groping around for a way to make...
Anything called a hootenanny ought to be shot on sight, but the whole country is having one. A hootenanny is to folk singing what a jam session is to jazz and all over the U.S. there is a great reverberate twang. Guitars and banjos akimbo folk singers inhabit smoky metropolitan crawl space; they sprawl on the floors of college rooms; near the foot of ski trails they keep time to the wheeze and sputter of burning logs; they sing homely lyrics to the combers of the Pacific...