Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think you ought to know that you got off on the wrong foot on your Cleveland Eucharistic Congress story (TIME, Sept. 30). Whatever your good intentions were, from this editorial desk I have heard complaints about it from all over the U. S., and they seem to be growing in volume. Many readers of your paper, spontaneously and without any collusion, saw in the story many a sly dig against the Church and its personalities. You see, once it gets into people's minds that you have no respect for anything, they see in all of your airy remarks...
...sell hogs," drawled Otis Moore. "There's more money in other products. Of course, we raise all we want to eat, but we depend on our cattle and our grapes [15 acres] for cash. We got $1,200 or $1,300 last year for our cattle and ought to get at least that much this year...
Said Grandmama Ebert: "It's a nice piece of work, but it ought to be draped and it's going to be draped. I've brought Henrietta up right...
...Christendom seeks readers who are thoughtful (but not too thoughtful),, learned (but not too learned), serious (but not too serious), and who are not ashamed of their feeling that, the situation being as it is, something ought to be done about...
...work, finds himself trapped by Nagulnov's onetime wife who chases him shamelessly, even follows him to his room. "You're a fine girl," he tells her ruefully, "and the legs under you are beautiful, only-only you don't use them to walk where you ought...