Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate with a big black patch over his left eye, explained that he had undergone treatment for an ulcer on the cornea. Said the Senate Majority Leader: "The doctor told me I should wear the patch to protect my eye against wind. Soooo-1 thought I ought to wear it to the Senate...
...support he can lay his hands on, then yell for more. Somewhere in the process of wholehearted cooperation, the air commander may find himself being seduced into giving extra ground support at the expense of sound tactical air doctrine. Then an enemy bridge stands unmolested, while the plane that ought to be bombing it is miles away, working out on a tank or a pillbox that might better be dealt with by a self-propelled...
...added, soothingly: Claude, you ought to have seen the first list submitted...
...sovereign nation may choose to drug itself with suspicion, cynicism, isolation, and history does not deny a great man his place because his aims and methods are objectionable. "History," someone has said, "is a record of events which ought not to have happened." But Joseph Stalin...
...performers was yet a Heifetz or a Kreisler. Co-inventor* Alexander Antipovitch Ivanov was best. Others included a tall man who never seemed to move or be moved, two girls of about 17 who swayed ecstatically with their work and two nervous young men who looked as if they ought to stop fooling around with emiritons and get out and play football...