Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill into this House under pressure which they may be able to command, when we are trying to preserve strength and unity required to do the Nation's work, if they force that bill into this House for the sake of saving their faces or their hides, they ought not to have hide enough left to be worth bothering about...
Among prominent London businessmen a notion keeps cropping up that there ought to be a way to buy for Britain immunity from German attack, and that the U. S. might be persuaded to help pay the cost of anything so obviously desirable. This school of British thought was heavily represented last week in the United Kingdom delegation sent to the ninth Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce in Berlin, a genial gathering of some 1,500 delegates from 41 nations. The British soap trust was represented by Chairman F. d'Arcy Cooper of Lever Brothers Ltd. who talked...
Fumed Mr. Girdler: "If the Chairman will remove the ban, I'd like to answer that one as it ought to be answered...
...make a speech soon warmly praised by German papers. "I must say I think the German Government . . . have shown a degree of restraint which we all recognize," cried Neville Chamberlain. Of the German claims in connection with the Leipzig incident he said: "That was a reasonable claim and ought not to be subject to hostile criticism...
...driven home with production control when the ever-normal granary gets abnormally full. Three weeks ago in press conference Franklin Roosevelt remarked that this was all a fine idea and he hoped some action would be taken on it. However, the President did not put it on his "ought" list (TIME, June 14). Last week a delegation marched into Mr. Wallace's offices...