Word: oughta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...custom and practice, but social change is the more difficult without legal reform. In any case, "the articulation of legal protections for women has begun," says EEOC Legislative Counsel Sonia Pressman Fuentes. "Already women can echo the words of Martin Luther King: 'We ain't what we oughta be, we ain't what we wanta be, we ain't what we gonna be but thank God we ain't what...
...oughta see me do my stuff...
...oughta see me strut...
...into that giant oak tree. You just can't make any penetration, and you can't beat anybody by taking 20-footers all night." After the game, one Baltimore fan offered a solution similar to that so often proposed by the Yankee-haters of old: "Those Bucks oughta be disbanded...
...politicians, became ethnic standard-bearers and played the role to the hilt. When John L. walked the streets of Southie wearing his diamondstudded belt and raved that there were "enough Sullivans to make an army big enough to capture Canada from the British and make it Irish like it oughta be," even the most aloof of the Gold Coast Irish had to whisper "right...