Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emerging from six years of war, during which morality and principle have increasingly been put aside in favor of military expediency. The war has now ended, and with that ending, principle and morality must be re-established in the world. The U.S. ought to take a lead in that. We are the only great nation whose people have not been drained, physically and spiritually. It devolves upon us to give leadership in restoring principle as a guide to conduct. If we do not do that, the world will not be worth living in. Indeed, it probably will be a world...
...Well now, Jim," said George Babbitt; "maybe you hadn't ought to be too hard on old Red Lewis. You don't want to forget he made...
...Zanuck and other seasoned Hollywood geniuses have made worse movies. All in all, Paris Underground ought not to lose Miss Bennett any money. If it should, she is unlikely to starve. Currently...
Merchants and landowners thought something ought to be done about Sixth Avenue. So, last week, in one of his spasmodic attacks of grandiloquence, did hen-shaped Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Hurriedly he sent an emergency message to the City Council. Members read it with bulging eyes, debated wildly, were unable to call back the moving finger of reform. That evening Manhattan discovered that Sixth Avenue had been renamed "Avenue of the Americas" (pronounced Avunya Damurrikuz...
...Avenue, an "undemocratic," outdated stone quarry. Rooms should only be about 12 ft. high, he explained, so people will not be made to feel insignificant. Pointing to his model, he sermonized: "Democracy demands this type of building. The thing you can't get any more in church you ought to get here; the health, vitality and beauty of the human imagination...