Word: twanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flat, homey, Western Missouri twang, Harry Truman made it all sound as easy as gathering eggs, and about as familiar. Those who raised objections were just old fogies...
...brought Ballet Theatre safely past that stage. She encouraged more ballets by English Choreographer Antony Tudor and let aspiring young U.S. choreographers have a chance. One of them, Jerome Robbins, repaid her by giving Ballet Theatre one of its biggest hits, Fancy Free (TIME, May 22, 1944). The Yankee twang was sharpened even more by commissioning new ballet scores from U.S. composers...
...flat, Ohio twang of Taft, it had an unfortunate way of sounding merely "agin." Taft, who had been slow to see the threat of Hitler, was sounding-in his urge for economy-as if he didn't really take Russia's threat too seriously. ("It is possible that the danger, of a crisis is being exaggerated somewhat at the time when appropriations are being sought," he said in a recent speech in Washington. "On the other hand, I may be wrong . . .") He also had a talent for the tactless: "We are paying out more than $12 billion...
...first man to declare himself last week for the Republican nomination for governor in the 1950 Massachusetts election was a homey, cob-nosed Yankee with a down-East twang. He had been ten years a state legislator and two years lieutenant governor. But more than his face and a good record gave him a good chance of getting the nomination. There was his name: Coolidge, Arthur W. Candidate Coolidge, white-haired and 68, is a fourth cousin of Calvin, but he is not quite so silent, and his collars are not quite so stiffly starched. Cousin Arthur promised to give...
...some ways, Dean Harry J, Carman of Columbia College,* Columbia University was a very odd sort of dean. He was a baggily dressed man with a Yankee twang and white hair that always seemed ruffled. He called distinguished visitors "you dear folks," said "peoples" when he meant "people"; and his eminent colleague, Historian Jacques Barzun, he insisted on calling Jake...