Word: whaddaya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this steak, see, an' it's supposed to be proim. Well, Alfred, he bites into it an' he sez what kennel did you get this steak at, an' I sez it's proim an' he sez, yeh, it's proim hawssmeat. But whaddaya gonna do, they're all doin...
...nightmare began when he hit $99,000. Since then, he has given close to 100 interviews, made guest appearances on other TV shows, parried dinner invitations from as far away as Boston and Philadelphia, put up with the same questions from strangers in streets, subways and restaurants ("Whaddaya gonna do with all that money?" "How does that game work anyway?"), and succeeded in getting his telephone number changed just as the phone was about to drive him out of his apartment. From The Bronx to Basutoland, fans have deluged him with 2,000 letters, including 20 outright proposals of marriage...
...bands filled the town with boogie-woogie. A hundred new bars opened up. Taxi drivers came from as far away as Hamburg to work in Celle. They took meters off, charged $5 to nearby Fassberg airport, where the Air Force men worked. Black marketeers wandered the nighttime streets mumbling: "Whaddaya...