Word: oughta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three straight games to salvage the 1958 World Series. Nor has the competition improved that impressively. The league-leading Cleveland Indians rely heavily on players who could not stay with the present Yankees. The Chicago White Sox have little power; the Detroit Tigers have erratic pitching. Growls Stengel: "We oughta be goddamned ashamed we ain't trying enough...
...elaborate pretense that all this nonsense is on the up-and-up is carried into all levels of wrestling. The actors themselves insist that no one writes a script for them. Carried away with enthusiasm for the cash they rake in, agents and matchmakers join the chorus. "You oughta see the casualty list," says Mondt. But there are a few practitioners who have escaped to higher arts, and they are prone to tell it straight...
...mother. She said I oughta earn money for stuff. There ain't much else to do." I agreed that he should and that there wasn't, when he shrieked...
...Manhattan housing development. As the picture begins, the wife has just told him that she is going to have a baby. He is stunned. How will he ever be able to finish night school? And if he doesn't finish night school ... "I think you oughta go to this bachelor party tonight," says his wife after one look at the poor punk's face. "You oughta have a little fun for yourself. You work all day and go to school all night...
Since one can drag out the Yale log only once a year, and because Santa is a regular sport, it seems about time to draw up our list of Wishes That Oughta Be: Naturally, all of them will come true since everyone-coaches, players, even the referees--have been good fellows this season. And if they don't, it's obviously the fault of the bad boys over in the HAA who somehow made a stow with those football tickets...