Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these valuable properties, with their top-ranking editorial organizations, their huge circulations and their prestige, to be abandoned? Ought there not be some way to continue these properties in the public interest and to salvage for the taxpayers some part of the investment they represent...
...Capitaine. In Manhattan, the FBI suggested that the Monte Carlo night club ought to change the garb of its doorman because the French Government had protested that he was always getting salutes from French soldiers...
...next person to step into line commented: "That was pretty tough." But the USES interviewer replied: "Oh, no. You ought to hear some of the others...
Truman told them to hurry. Byrnes, pleased and excited, almost ran through the lobby and into the President's office. Half an hour later, when they left, Forrestal was taut and hopeful. The reporters, he said, ought to have something within 30 minutes. Forrestal was wrong...
Grace Moore, returning from a U.S.O. tour of Europe (see THEATER), had an idea about faithless G.I. wives. Said the fizzy blond cinemactress and Metropolitan Opera soprano: "They ought to shave the heads of these women...