Word: oughta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spotted a white-faced black steer (a grade cross between Hereford and Angus) mincing at the feed. Although the calf's nose was not running, Joe figured it might have a cold, or, worse yet, be "one of them that just never does eat like he oughta." With the help of his old high-school vocational agriculture teacher, who substitutes in a poor county for a graduate veterinarian, Joe took the steer's temperature, found it four degrees above the normal of 101° Fahrenheit. He and the teacher purged the calf with laxative, hypoed it with penicillin...
...memories of nights at Windsor Castle playing command performances for the royal family; next came earthy Rocky Graziano, his pretty wife and two shy children. An ex-delinquent, ex-world champion and, presently, a TV actor, Rocky had a fistful of forceful, if ungrammatical, opinions on teen-agers ("they oughta be good"), TV performing ("my director says he'll fire me if I ever turn into an actor"), and the U.S. ("I'd a kilt my father if he hadn't caught the boat over here...
...days-jest a large cup of demitasse in the mornin' . . . He said I didn't have no sign of kodiak trouble around the heart or no coroner's trombone disease where the blood gets shut off in the artillery ... I think they call it the I Oughta . . . Everythin' was okey dokel . . . wit' my gold bladder...
...backed off the bus, and on came a disheveled-looking off-duty cop. "I wanna help yoush fellowsh," he stammered. "Dose guys is bashtids. I oughta know." He staggered...
...busses waited. "Do you think I oughta hide my bursar's card in my shoe?" worried one bandsman. Finally, the band manager returned. "We need $250 bail. Give us what you can spare, so we can get out of here," he said. There was a simultaneous movement toward wallets. "Here's twenty, is that enough?" "I can lend five...