Word: whaddaya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paul was city editor of Hearst's New York Journal-American, the U.S.'s biggest evening paper through the '40s and '50s. He had muscular clout as well; his arms were those of "a well-manicured ape." It was intoxicating to hear friends inquire: "Ralphie, whaddaya think would happen if your father ever hit anybody with all his might...
Carlo had learned enough about the Harvard mystique to take offense at that one, Whaddaya mean what's special he shot back, moving into the type of diatribe they would have loved to hear up at Byerly Hall. You're looking at the oldest-collgein America with the finest-facultyanywhere and thebest-studentbodyaround. It's the people who are important he argued, slowing down a bit as he noticed the cords standing out in Lou's neck, which was purple. It doesn't matter where you live in Harvard, it's who you meet, it's hwat's you learn...
Late one muggy afternoon last month, two men carrying bulging paper bags got out of a 1975 Mercury Marquis, walked up to a cigarette wholesaler's warehouse in Queens, pushed a bell above the steel door and were admitted. A few minutes later, another man rang the bell. "Whaddaya want?" he was asked over an intercom. "This is Jerry. I came to pick up the order," said the caller. "It's too late. I can't give you the stuff," said the voice, clicking off. The caller made a quick gesture to a building across the street...
Demonstrators in the Cambridge march carried signs denouncing California grape and lettuce growers, and calling President Nixon an eater of non-UFW grapes. They also chanted slogans, including "Viva la Huelga," "Hey hey whaddaya say, don't shop A&P today," and "Same struggle, same fight, working people must unite...
...Whaddaya trying' to do, bud, run me out of business?" shouts the newsboy...