Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able dramatization of Britain's second royal abdication,* observed famed Liberal Lawyer Morris Ernst on the revival's first night: "It's great, and very appropriate to some recent events in England. Evans makes you sympathetic to a slobby loafing bum of a king when you ought to be against...
...medical examination showed her to be pregnant, and according to the County Prosecutor, Groom Backus confessed to having seduced her. He was arrested for second-degree rape. Said Mrs. Backus, posing for photographs in apparent enjoyment of home life on her husband's $25-a-week salary: "People ought to mind their own business." Three days later Leona's father was jailed, accused of fraud in obtaining the birth certificate on which her marriage license was based...
...enable the Commissioner of Agriculture to make a special distribution of seeds in the drought-stricken counties of Texas. . . .' "I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution and I do not believe that the power and duty of the general Government ought to be ex tended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that...
...months in prison, his close escape from the guillotine, but it was Washington whom Paine blamed, accusing him of sacrificing their friendship for a treaty with the hated English. It pleased Paine when Napoleon praised The Rights of Man, said to him, "A statue of gold ought to be erected to you in every city in the universe." But when he discovered the wily Frenchman merely wished him to lead an armed raid against the English, he turned on Napoleon his greatest barrage of invective...
...Coach Hal Ulen's mermen should be able to break the Hanover ice tonight and take the Green swimmers into camp by a score of at least 45-28. Paced by Olympic swimmer Charlie Hutter, and boasting such able performers as Graham Cummin and Dario Berizzi, the Cambridge invaders ought to signalize their first Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming meet of the season with a victory...