Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lawyer Leibowitz and Attorney General Thomas Knight, the prosecutor, went up to the bench, whispered hastily in his ear. "Oh yes," said the judge, facing the jury. "I overlooked one thing. If you are not satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty as charged, then he ought to be acquitted." Twenty-six hours later came a resounding thump on the brown wooden jury room door. The bailiff let the jurors out. The foreman unfisted a moist crumpled note, handed it to the clerk. A thin smile faded from Patterson's lips as the clerk read...
Still trying to get around Mr. McCarl, General Johnson advised Secretary Wallace that Ford Motor Co., "save in respect of certain technical particulars which are considered immaterial," had satisfactorily complied with NRA requirements, but that Dealer Sabine ought not to get the contract. He was, reasoned General Johnson, "probably" violating the automobile retail code by bidding lower than the list price for Ford trucks...
Star delegates of the Conference were silver-haired, sweetly reasonable U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Mexico's darkling, pugnacious Foreign Minister Puig Casauranc, high-powered salesman of the idea that there ought to be a Spanish American League of Nations to "offset" the Yankees and Canadians. Uruguayan Communists let Senor Casauranc alone-though Mexico does not recognize the Soviet Union-but strewed the path of the U. S. Secretary of State with leaflets reading "Down with Bandit Hull! Down with Yankee Imperialism...
...Sailor (Warner). When, in this picture, a sailor says to Joe E. Brown. ''I ought to cut your throat from ear to ear," another remarks: "Someone's done it already." This rude allusion to Comedian Brown's appearance should please his admirers. So should his efforts to impress a girl who turns out to be the admiral's daughter; his antics when she takes him home to amuse her father and her fiancé, Brown's lieutenant; his attempt to escape by a trellis, which breaks and lets him fall; his eventual departure...
Correction Hospital, where Manhattan segregates some addicts, ought to show some malaria picked up this way, reasoned Dr. Norris and sent an investigator there last week. Five cases of malaria showed up. None seemed to be the original carrier of the disease...