Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week he continued to broadcast the theme to his listening neighbors. He knew that he had started something. Honduran Congress President Plutarco Muñoz had roared that "pines of Honduras really means that a revolutionary ought to be strung up on every pine in Honduras." The pine emblem had struck home...
...union declares that occasion might arise where it might be necessary for it to consider whether the company is 'paying the president too much money'-whether the directors 'who aren't doing anything might be getting too much money'-whether 'the engineers ought to be sweeping up the shop instead of designing their products'-whether 'the managerial personnel has gone to seed...
...newsman asked: "Don't you think we ought first to rebuild Nanking and Manila...
...polling day they vote for him. They feel he is good for Canada. Said one Ontario capitalist just before last June's elections: "If you had a salesman who had no personality but he brought in the orders, you'd keep him. I think we ought to keep...
Sebastian's older brother, Lord Brideshead, was an avid collector of matchboxes. Sebastian's sister, Julia, was like a "Renaissance tragedy. . . . Dogs and children love her . . . my dear, she's a fiend. . . . There ought to be an Inquisition especially set up to burn...