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Word: twangs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speaking in the soft nasal twang of his native Kentucky, Warren admitted that he wrote the poem as a response to a colleague's discussion of the frequent appearance of hawk-images in his poetry...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Land Speaks On Science, Metaphysics | 6/15/1977 | See Source »

Georgia Rhythm may be the kind of music they're heading towards. It's the most musically complex cut on the album, opening slowly, with echoes of Jimmy Buffett, building up to a tightly controlled yet steady rhythm. The twang and slide and repeated chords of guitar coming together to make it the most memorable track on R & R Alternative. Perhaps because it's the most seemingly sincere, listen to these lyrics; they sound autobiographical...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Loud, Hot 'Lanta Honky-Tonk | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

Died. Quincy Howe, 76, author, editor and broadcaster whose Yankee twang was familiar to millions of CBS radio listeners during World War II; of cancer of the larynx; in Manhattan. After studying at Harvard and Cambridge, he worked for the Atlantic Monthly and Living Age magazines, later joined Simon & Schuster as chief book editor at the age of 34. His books on foreign affairs included a sardonic plea to keep the U.S. out of a European war (England Expects Every American to Do His Duty, 1937). His Anglophobia, however, was tempered after the U.S. joined the conflict. Following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 28, 1977 | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...Arkansas twang of Dick Moose rattles the phone lines again. Tough, bright, energetic and jovial, Moose worked his special way through State, the White House and the Hill, calling accurate shots on Viet Nam and other world trouble spots. He will be an Under Secretary of State with more power and a mustache, but the same soul. Dick Moose walks through the corridors of Foggy Bottom as if he had never left. In spirit he never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Grafting Job: Old Body, New Head | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

Jean Shepherd is fiftyish. He has a middle-age bulge and styled hair. But oddly enough he does not speak with the Midwestern twang that characterizes his stories, films, and radio shows...

Author: By Fredda Goldsmith, | Title: Shepherd Film Portrays Midwest | 12/15/1976 | See Source »

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