Word: twangs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scrunch, Twang. Already the shopping center has begun to replace the courthouse square as the center of the community's cultural and recreational life. In many a new suburban center, auto-borne families are taking advantage of a busy schedule of attractions-pop concerts on the mall, choral recitals and amateur plays in a center-provided auditorium. The rattle of bowling pins is accompanied by the scrunch of ice skates, the twang of archers' bows. There are fashion shows, cooking schools, art shows, and folk-dancing classes. Now the movie theater operators, who have been shuttering one downtown...
...chairmen that "only God and myself will know whom I vote for." The contest thus turned mainly on personality. Shadegg is recognized as one of the nation's most astute political managers, but his cold, seemingly superior personality offended many voters. Mecham, a slight man with a folksy twang, came across better. Born on a Utah farm, he was a high school salutatorian, a World War II P-51 pilot who was shot down over Germany and held prisoner, a self-made businessman who built up a 100-employee Pontiac dealership in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale. He teaches...
...house in Fair Haven. N.J., watching his granddaughter perambulate her favorite doll in the summer sunshine, but he might have been anywhere in the U.S. His cry and his question are being heard more often and more urgently everywhere-in Southern drawl and Northern twang, in city and suburb, cold-water flat and executive suite...
...last it was time to move out. One Ranger began to twang out a tune on a captured Viet Cong guitar, and a companion did a twistlike jig, holding onto the bipod of his automatic rifle like a boy dancing with a broomstick. The bag for the day had been seven Viet Cong killed, eight prisoners, 53 suspect villagers arrested, seven rifles, more than 100 rounds of ammunition-and one guitar...
...which connote your beliefs and your dislikes and the things you love," says she, ""are the songs that make up folk music. " Texas-born, Carolyn studied at the American Theater Wing before turning to folk singing, includes Spanish songs and Southern blues, sung flat-out in a mewing Texas twang that sounds just right for the likes of I will Fly Away: One bright maw'nin When this world is over, Ah'll fly away To that land On God's celestial shore, I'll fly away, fly away...