Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days which ended last week, the four principal parties in the republic battled each other to a standstill so often that it seemed almost time to hang up the D. W. F. sign−"Divided We Fall." Almost every day War Minister Karl Vaugoin stormed that the republic ought to fall, repeatedly demanded proclamation of a dictatorship...
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics MacCracken exercised his persuasive powers, induced Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh to fly from New York to Washington last week, to tell a joint committee of Congress what sort of airport the capital ought to have. To the Committee, headed by air-minded Senator Bingham of Connecticut, Col. Lindbergh laid down the following specifications...
...Everybody knows that the laws ought to be enforced...
...Everybody knows that the President ought to enforce the laws...
...first of a month and the first of the year coincide, and that impelled by the year coincide, and that impelled by the double action of both of these useful but in themselves relatively unspectacular events people are moved to consider the renunciation of those things which they ought not to do and the pursuit of those things which they ought to do--for a time at least...