Word: oughta
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...Yessir," said the inner voice. "Gridvid is the coming thing. See ya at the game-two o'clock in Cronin's. Oughta be a good game, Harvard vs. Dartmouth. A real pipperoo for local gridvidders...
...from the fringe of the green, chipped into the cup for an eagle three. "After that start," said Snead in his corn-pone drawl, "ah thought unless Burkemo goes hawg wile, ah'd be O.K. Ah thought if a man can't win six up he oughta quit and go home." Sam won seven up. It was the handsomest winning margin since a newcomer named Sam Snead lost to Paul Runyan in the 1938 P.G.A. final...
...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...