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Word: wanta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of kids from the boondocks of Southie have been waiting two and a half hours for their heartthrob, Blake, to emerge. Now they besiege the well-guarded door: "Please just tell Mister Blake t' go t' the' window, just tell him there's a lotta kids out here wanta see him 'n take pichas, please..." The door is shut on their pleading. "Are you going to tell Blake he's got fans outside?" an uninitiated bystander asks. The tall toothy club member playing footman at the door raises his Aryan eyebrows. "Are you kidding?" he laughs shortly, a watchdog...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Spotlight, Streetlight | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...more difficult without legal reform. In any case, "the articulation of legal protections for women has begun," says EEOC Legislative Counsel Sonia Pressman Fuentes. "Already women can echo the words of Martin Luther King: 'We ain't what we oughta be, we ain't what we wanta be, we ain't what we gonna be but thank God we ain't what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Up from Coverture | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...wanta wake up with a pipe-fitter in the morning. I want a woman...

Author: By William S. Beckett, | Title: 10 Candles for YAF Barry Goldwater Day and a Visit from Strom Thurmond | 10/21/1970 | See Source »

...When a young person says, 'I wanta do my thing,' he's saying the exact same thing that conservatives have been doing for centuries.... We don't want to do our thing at the expense of others...

Author: By William S. Beckett, | Title: 10 Candles for YAF Barry Goldwater Day and a Visit from Strom Thurmond | 10/21/1970 | See Source »

...group of mostly bankers in New York that runs it. Rockefeller went down there to Miami in '68 and spent so many millions of his family's money and couldn't make it, so he and Sidney Weinberg and Lewis Strauss called in Nixon and said, 'look, do you wanta get elected? We'll put up the money! And Nixon had to take on his old enemy Kissinger, who was Rockefeller's adviser for twenty years, and he didn't want him, but now Kissinger is sitting up there next to Nixon and he's really running things...

Author: By William S. Beckett, | Title: 10 Candles for YAF | 10/20/1970 | See Source »

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