Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where Harvard should outshine the Elis is in the doubles. Appleby and Brian Davis will have lots of problems with Yale's first doubles team of Brooks and Waltz, but the other Crimson teams of Adelsberg-Gonzalez and Benjamin-Kileff ought...
...beer, sending the top sailing to the ceiling, lends lively contrast to the slothlike movements of the bar's eight girls, shuffling from soldier to soldier. The price of a "short time" varies with the demand from $2.50 to $5 and inevitably has produced grumbling. "General Kinnard ought to put his foot down," complained one cavalryman last week. "Five bucks is too high. He oughta make three bucks the standard price." The plaint is, of course, misdirected. An Khe Plaza is a creation of the Vietnamese and run by the Vietnamese, albeit for Americans...
...years ago, no sportswriter in Washington-or anywhere else-would have dared such doggerel about the Yankees, perennial overlords of the American League, winners of 29 pennants and 20 World Series. But last season the champion Yanks plummeted to sixth place, and rival teams started hooting that they ought to change their name to the Toledo Mud Hens. "Don't you believe it," growled General Man ager Ralph Houk. "We're not dead yet." He was right. The Yankees still had some dying...
...onetime auto-factory worker with "the lowest mechanical aptitude General Motors ever tested," peers over a pitcher of beer and explains that a teacher must have "that divine tension. You've got to be concerned?but not dedicated, which sounds as if you're doing something you think you ought to do. For me?Christ...
...seem to be spontaneous drama; yet Scully spends a full day planning each of them, selecting as many as 100 slides and changing the course every year because "I'm not the same person I was last year." Frenetic and lonely, Scully's whole life is an explosion. "You ought to hear him give his description of Y. A. Tittle's last year with the Giants," says his colleague Jerry Pollitt. "It's gripping, like Greek tragedy. He comes across like Euripides...