Word: oughta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...P.T.A. and all of the mothers say he oughta look like the others . . Why won't they try to understand him, Why won't you let him be what he wants...
Surely, also, Audrey is provided with ample opportunities for her patented doe-eyed scream. Four graphic corpses, I am told, put in an appearance. The first (Audrey's hubby) is tossed battered from a speeding train. The second (a mountainous lummox with a hook where his right hand oughta be) we discover face up and fish lipped in an overflowing bathtub. Number three (a balding dry-goodsman from the Bronx or someplace) gets his throat most ostentatiously slashed in an early-morning elevator. The last is an evil-tempered Texan named, curiously enough, "Tex." Audrey finds him bound head...
...believe Joshua did pray to God and the sun stood still " On her Israeli trip she became frightened while traveling over the twisting roads of the rugged Judean Hills, until a "Spirit" reprimanded her: "If Joseph could bring Mary over these rough mountains on a donkey, you oughta be ashamed of yourself, Mahalia." In fact, the whole trip was like a homecoming. "The very first gospel singers," says Mahalia Jackson were them angels who sang 'Peace on earth, good will...