Word: twanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Friendship. Then, in an even, quiet, almost confidential tone that rang with a New Hampshireman's twang, Adams began reading from a prepared statement. "I have tried, throughout my service in the Government of the United States, to treat everyone courteously and to perform any requests which have been made of me efficiently and in accordance with the rules which I believe pertain to my particular activity." His voice sharpened, and his wide-set blue eyes darted up and raked the faces of the seven subcommittee members: "Is there any member of this committee who has not made...
When motion pictures began to speak, more than one star of the silent screen, e.g., Corinne Griffith, John Gilbert, turned out to have a boondocks twang or a reedy pitch, and was never heard from again. But to Ronald Colman, whose English accent and pleasingly low register were envied from Metro to Paramount, the coming of sound meant second wind for one of the cinema's longest and most unvaryingly successful careers...
...Eugene Gilbert, a specialist in probing teen-age minds (TIME, Aug. 13, 1956), announced-to no one's surprise-that Pelvis fans, rated against the Como-Boone-Sinatra crowd, are all shook up indeed. Researcher Gilbert's findings: in school, most Presleyans don't give a twang for getting good grades. Average grade for the Elvis lover is C; for the Booneite, B or better. Thirty percent of ardent rock 'n' rollers admitted that they never thought about the years ahead. Typical comment: "What's the hurry? When the time comes, I guess...
Today. Sleepy Huntsville, "the water cress capital of the world," came alive almost overnight; its easy Southern cadences intermixed with the get-it-done twang of Yankee technicians and the business-first guttural of the German scientists. Although only one of the cotton mills now remains in operation, Huntsville thrives as never before on an $81-million-a-year Army payroll. Where once Huntsville extended a mile in each direction from its yellow brick courthouse, it now covers 40 square miles, with gracious antebellum homes, squalid Negro slums, and $15,000-per-unit development homes for Redstone...
...Radio--twang plunk twang oh baby you jes' wait rock rock roll...