Word: twangs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with New York plates sit side by side with Maine pick-ups. In the store itself, however, most of the big purchases seem to be made by urban residents rather than farmers and trappers. "These city people sure like things organized," one customer says in an unmistakable New England twang...
...joints. Like the washers that prevent faucets from leaking, they are designed to keep the rocket's exhaust gases from escaping through any gaps in the joints. These are especially vulnerable under the immense forces generated at lift-off (the entire shuttle bends momentarily in what engineers call "the twang," and the nearly half-inch-thick steel casing of the boosters balloons slightly above and below each joint). In the Challenger disaster, the exhaust gases had apparently burned through a protective putty (signaled by the white smoke) and jetted past both O rings, presumably because they had not seated properly...
...desert wasteland outside Solong, the wandering Prophet Motive (Leonard Dick) and his hapless sidekick Ahmed A'Boubou (Jeffrey Korn) are way ahead of their time, preaching the good 20th century values of capitalism and personal repression. Dick's enormous birdnest of a white wig and his well-developed evangelistic twang are all-too-familiar and consequently quite effective. Their energetic duet, "Moral Hygiene," is yet another showstopper...
Finn, a native of North Carolina, said he has many friends from the Boston area, and added that he has lost most of his once lilting southern accent, trading it in for a more nasal New England twang...
...same token, Pickens said in a heavy Texas twang, he would do nothing contrary to the interests of his own stockholders to fend off a hostile takeover attempt...