Word: twang
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...Harris propped an oil portrait on Masonite board on top of an oil heater to dry. When the board got too hot, he grabbed it by the edges and wobbled It back and forth to cool it off. As he did, out came a resonant twang like the sound of a tight-skinned bongo drum. Harris decided the sound was just the background he needed for his kangaroo song. Harris recorded the number, and soon Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport rocketed to the top of the Australian bestseller list...
...matter what soothing talk Kennedy may put forth about religion's not being an issue, do not be fooled. Religion is the issue in this campaign. Instead of being garbed in a brown derby with a Bowery twang, it comes in a Brooks Brothers suit, clipped accents, and a Pepsodent smile that causes old women and bobby-soxers to swoon and mouth inanities...
...keystone of a free-world economic policy based on growing prosperity through freer trade. The drive was the President's own. But the man behind the drive was a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), mild-mannered Texan with a lingering touch of the prairies in his soft twang: Robert Bernerd Anderson, 49, Secretary of the Treasury and the strong man of Dwight Eisenhower's Cabinet...
Golden's friend Carl Sandburg, about whom he is writing a book, has called him the Jewish Will Rogers. He might be called the Jewish Edgar Guest, too, but at his best, the cigar-chewing editor does evoke the old Rogers twang. Golden on the U.S. Astronauts: "Having found the perfect man, it seems the last place they should send him is to the moon. They ought to shoot off the least qualified man, because we need the best man like we never needed him before...
...their first meeting since the 1958 elections than California's Stevensonite Paul Ziffren drew the battle lines. In view of the sweeping national character of the Democratic election victory, said he in effect, the party had better forget its Southern drawl in favor of a Yankee political twang. From that point on, the Democrats spent most of their time skirmishing over the issues of North v. South -with about the usual results...