Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Selective Service Act ought to allow these citizens to do some work of national importance outside the U.S. . . . The marines would . . . make useful men out of them...
...local girls near where you are stationed. When I say thinking I am half afraid that may be just the thing you have not done. ... In the first place, the girl up till a very short while ago was one of our enemies. ... I know that we ought not to bear grudges . . . but you may find yourself living [in England] next door to someone whose husband or son was killed in Italy...
...said FCC, Philco, Crosley, CBS, the Blue Network, the Cowles Broadcasting Co.-the move ought to be made to avoid sunspot interference predicted a few years hence...
...national Old Maid's Day, said that she was also against "Mother's Day, Father's Day . . . and days for this and that and everything." Since "they are all aimed at honoring the family," she offered a suggestion of her own: "I think they . . . ought to be lumped together as a sort of 'Family Day' when we could remind people of parents' duties to children and vice versa." In her newspaper column, she offered a quick glimpse at Roosevelt family life: "Certainly in . . . our large family there is never a dearth of conversation...
...city in a studio, as if under glass, instead of diving into the real city and taking its chances. Working so far from the real thing, it is easy to forget even details which could be remedied in a studio. When mourners shudder in a winter cemetery, their breaths ought to show; and if a hot iron is left on a shirt, the shirt ought to suffer the consequences. Yet A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is much more true-to-life than most movies; and much more likable as well...