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...Jooooe! Duuuude! Howya dooooin?" Joe is not doing so well. Joe has a 12-page paper due in 12 hours. Interruptions disturb Joe's meticulously scheduled page-per-hour ratio...
Amid his endless patter of "Howya-dooin's," the giggling of three teen-age girls catches Hope's attention. Chirping and darting looks at one another, the youngsters ask him the way to a local nightspot. Hope savors the moment, then points the direction. As he watches them wiggle off into the night, he nudges his visitor and whispers out of the side of his mouth, "What do you think? You want to go dancing?" - By E. Graydon Carter
Waiting for Progressing's race that afternoon, Mr. Fitz sat on a wooden bench against a sheltered, sunny wall and chatted with dozens of friends and dozens of strangers who pressed against a nearby fence ("Howya feeling, Mr. Fitz?" "I'm feeling fine now"). Then Groom Wendel Griffith brought in Progressing, and Mr. Fitz set to work. Progressing began to act up badly. "Stop trying to put your paw in Wendel's pocket," said Mr. Fitz. He bent under the fidgeting horse, tapped him lightly on the knee with his wooden cane and scolded: "Stop that!" Progressing...
...States boys have come thousands of miles to help us win this war." >"Remember that British people have a reputation for being standoffish, and anything you can do to dispel this illusion will help to foster good feeling. . . . The first time an American approaches the counter and asks 'Howya, baby?' you will probably think he is being impudent. By the time several dozen men have said it, you will come to the conclusion that all Americans are 'fresh.' Yet to them it will be merely the normal conversational opening, just as you might say 'Lovely...
...Howya' goin', huh? Done your Reading Period work yet? No. Me neither. It's a laugh. I say It's a laugh. I mean, the Reading Period. They took up the extra chairs today. yeh, the extra chairs. They took 'em up today. That's a fast one. Need them for the line outside the Dean's office...