Word: whatsa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bobby, whatsa matter?" Carlton asked. "Just keep it on the inside corners. Jam'im. Foster can't hit inside." By this time Zimmer had made it out to the mound, and he slapped a fatherly hand on Bobby's shoulder. Bobby looked at the hand distrustfully...
...little rapes" Medea and Thompson talk about begin on the street. "Whatcha doin' tonight, honey? Nice legs ya got there. Wanna come up to my house? Hey, whatsa matter with you? I'm just trying to be friendly." Some women consider such comments complimentary. Many find them an invasion of privacy. On a street late at night, they are threatening. But no matter how women feel about these jibes, the authors say, they all react the same way. Lowering our heads to the ground, they say, we pretend to fumble in our purses, or stare straight ahead...
...episodes were filmed by a movie camera in a twelfth-floor window above the street. What the camera did not record, though, were the remarks of pedestrians buffeted by the psychologists: "Whatsa madda? Ya blind? Whyn't ya look where ya goin'? Ya crazy or sump'n?" The way Wolff sees it, such comments indicate that New Yorkers, though inured to many other inconveniences, are not tolerant of sidewalk bumping; they expect some degree of cooperation from other pedestrians in order to avert collisions...