Word: dat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign to wipe the dread Viet-Narian guerrillas out of West Vhtnnng," there was movement in Paris. After sitting at the same peace table with him for ten years, the lady representative of the guerrillas finally decided to recognize the enemy representative. Her historic words: "Hi there, General Hoo Dat Don Dar." But, laments Hoppe, "as the American and East Vhtnnngian negotiators cheered, waved flags and clapped each other on the back, General Hoo looked at her coolly. 'And who,' he said, 'are you?' So the war continued for 27 more years...
Worth a Shot. Breslin is a New York boy who once lived in a suburb, but hated it and moved to Queens. His long-suffering wife, renowned in his columns as "the former Rosemary Dat-tolico" and their six kids put up with him, which takes some doing...
Chain-Letter Effect. Those lines have not been published in the Soviet Union. But they are nonetheless read and passed from hand to hand in samiz-dat,* the readers' answer to Soviet censorship. Manuscripts are copied and recopied laboriously by typewriter, since any mechanical reproduction, even mimeograph...
SIMILARLY, Bro Uttal's impotent, decaying gentleman, Gaev, was hampered by his conventional stage voice, Except for a few aberrant excursions into a Russian accent--notably a weird first-act "Dat's vhy"--he spoke clearly, firmly, strongly and wrongly in a kind of Laurence Harvey accent that disappeared only when his acting instincts carried him away. And Lloyd Schwartz's charming enthusiast Trofimov, who ended the first act in an exquisitely naive love scene with Miss Firth, seemed afterwards unsure how to time and blend his seriousness and humor...
...matter who dey is, Nat, good or bad, even ol' Marse Joe, dey white folks day gwine make you feel black-assed. Never seed a white man smile at me befo'. How come dat 'plies, Nat? Figger a white man treat you right you gwine feel white-assed. Naw suh! Young Massah, old massah sweet-talk me, I jes' feel black-assed th'ough and th'ough. Figger when I gets to heaven like you say I is, do good Lord hisself even He gwine make old Hark feel black-assed, standin' befo' de golden throne. Dere He is, white...