Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time of the Battles of Messines (1917) Sassoon was in England recuperating from his wound. He had begun to be fed up with the War, finally decided he ought to do something about it. He wrote a formal statement of his refusal to return to the front (although he was not going to be sent back), "as an act of wilful defiance ot military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it." He sent this statement to his colonel, was immediately ordered to report. To the colonel...
...been tested by the authorities and found unfit to drink. It is suggested that the students lay off the stuff too. Apparently no information is given as to where a one can get a decent drink, but presumably it is assumed that any bright boy with a college education ought to be able to find out such things for himself; those who can't find it don't deserve to have any, that...
...appearance with still larger adjectives and longer superlatives ringing forth in its praise from the publicity department. Not the least impressive of the much heralded features of this picture is that somehow or other the director, Howard Hughes, managed to spend some four millon dollars in the production, which ought to guarantee something stupendous at any rate: The point omitted, however, is how much was paid for the story. For while a story is essential to bind the film together, it seems that Howard Hughes was out to fill the requirement but no more and the result is that...
...Yeah, I see," the superintendent told him hastily magnanimous "But, say, when you get through with this job, you ought to go to college in the fall. You look like a pretty bright fella...
...season!" And when the coach had said his say, the football captain recited the same gospel with equal emphasis, and the president of the senior honor society told it again for extra measure. Thereafter, punctually at 3.30 P.M., even on the best autumn days, scores of freshmen who ought to have been securing exercise of their own on court or links would be down at the football field watching other men exercise. As for spending the afternoon of a game in the library rather than on the grandstand, this was considered a crime worthy of social capital punishment, even when...