Word: twanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...comic felt at peace with the world, so he decided to call a boyhood pal, now an undertaker in Ohio. "This is Elwood P. Suggins," he said, choosing a phony name and his best rube twang. "My brother passed away Sunday a week, and I wonder if you could do a job." Said the undertaker: "Good God, man, Sunday a week! Where is he?" Replied the comic: "Out on the porch against the lattice. That cold spell that set in kept him harder than a carp. But then that warm spell set in, and he commenced to get pretty fleshy...
...complex biochemistry, representing the consensus of several leading cytologists, was too deep for most visiting physicians and probably understood only by other cytologists. But its ingenuity was vastly admired. One elderly physician stood in awe of the huge cell for a while, then said in a dry Missouri twang: "It'll never work...