Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing that will make this a banner year for crew," declared Coach Stevens, "is to have all the men sign up who feel any interest in rowing. As soon as a man finishes with one activity, he ought to come out for crew, if he has not decided on another sport. Experience means nothing in our game, particularly in regard to Freshmen...
...going to America as a friend of the working classes. British imperialism ought to crumble in the dust. I am out to work for a revolution and for the day when the workers will control the whole world. But before this comes you will have to face cold steel...
...born to two ex-slaves living in Augusta. There must have been considerable white blood in him, for even in infancy he was no darker than the knave of spades. It so happened that his surname coincided with the name of the reconstruction President. His father thought that he ought to be given the name of the great Emancipator as well, and his mother insisted that he have a good honest name like Henry. So he was christened Henry Lincoln Johnson...
...ought not to write at this I time because i am angry and disappointed. I have just picked up the latest copy of TIME. i feel as if I had lost a good friend...
...Chancellor had had time to glance at his mail before the door of the reception room opened and an official person announced: M. Joseph Caillaux and M. de Fleurian. In walked a strange creature, a bald-headed man with a trimmed mustache, the ends of which it seemed he ought to twirl. He was smiling and his luminous eyes gave no hint of the fact that he was the husband of a woman who had been tried for murder and he himself had been tried for treason and both had survived their tribulations. Nor did those fascinating eyes...