Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high-minded Congress of the U. S. resolved that the people of Cuba "are and of a right ought to be, free and independent." To prove that this declaration was not empty rhetoric, the U. S. soon thereafter went to war with Spain. Results of that 100-day conflict: 1) Cuba got its independence, 2) the U. S. paid Spain $20,000,000 as a fair price for the Philippines, 3) Spain handed over to the U. S. as an indemnity the Islands of Puerto Rico and Guam, 4) the Era of Manifest Destiny dawned as the U. S. launched...
Puerto Rican politicians long ago discovered the conviction that the people of Puerto Rico, like the people of Cuba, of a right ought to be free and independent. But this traditional tenet of the Liberal Party which ruled Puerto Rico for years was largely an academic issue which failed to rouse the drowsy insular population to thought or action. The only violent advocates of independence have been the Nationalists, a small minority party led by Pedro Albizu Campos. Two Nationalists recently assassinated Colonel Elisha Francis Riggs, chief of the insular police and personal friend of Senator Tydings. Last week...
...possible, the effectiveness of those Washington correspondents who write articles critical of his Administration. . . . The direct connection between the public attack made by the Democratic National Committee on various Washington correspondents and the President's conversations in private is no longer a secret and in the public interest ought not to be. ... If writers who are conscientiously trying to write their impressions of what is happening in Washington are to be made the objects of a punitive campaign because they happen to disagree, this, too, ought to be fully disclosed so that the first signs of a real dictatorship...
Thus it seems that the home team, bolstered by its recent double header triumph over Columbia, ought to repeat its victory of last year over the B. U. nine. But although the invaders were impeded by a slow start, their recent clashes with Bates and Wesleyan should have whipped them into shape to play the best ball of the season against the Crimson today...
...There ought to be a law against playing on the emotions of Chevrolet and Ford owners for exploitation...