Word: oughta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burglar!" He is against John L. Lewis, amateurs of all kinds, and the custom of eating lunch. He is convinced that the legislative process was conceived for only one purpose-grilling Petrillo like a frankfurter. When annoyed by an opponent, he screams: "Tell him he's nuts-he oughta run for Congress." He trusts only one man with power-Petrillo...
...anonymous Chicago Democratic precinct captain: "It was them bastards that shouldn't oughta vote which voted and beat...
Said the engineer wistfully to his passenger: "You oughta been along yesterday. Yesterday I had a steam locomotive." Today was different. Like most of the trains on the Myitkyina, Mogaung & Mandalay Railroad, this was one towed by two jeeps mounted on flanged wheels...
With the issuance of the long-awaited Year Books one of the most novel and worthy ideas other than the concensus that Berna Tool oughta bagga head of the past six months has been suggested by the Battalion idea-man, and bride-groom-to-be, Jock Brunner. Jock proposes that when the long twilight of senility and retirement descends upon our new effervescent lives and we look not to the future, but back upon our glorious past, we will, as is customary, hearken back to the days we spent here at Harvard. In any relationship in which a group...