Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miserable, ill-clothed, ill-fed, ill-educated. 2) That the cause of this misery is the unequal distribution which . . . has been made of the products of their labour. 3) That the cause of that cause is a defect in the government. 4) That every enlightened and honourable person ought to excite them [the common people] ... to the temperate but irresistible vindication of their rights...
Overtime. In St. Louis, Louis Druzinsky, St. Louis Symphony violinist, donned old clothes and dark glasses, fiddled Paganini and Tchaikovsky at a street corner, collected $5.98 in his tin cup in 25 minutes, philosophized: "I ought to quit the Symphony. I can make more money this...
Captain Mildred McAfee, brisk, athletic, curly-haired head of the WAVES, ardent feminist, suggested that since volunteer lady hostesses "resent" having WAVES, WACs, SPARs and women marines at their servicemen's parties, husbands of hostesses ought to get together and entertain servicewomen. One of her WAVES had told her about one such party, "held in somebody's back yard because they had a swimming pool-it was not an organized thing." Everyone had a good time despite the fact some of the men were old enough to be the girls' fathers...
Ohio's gift to room C-36, Kevin "Casey" O'Donnell got his ugly face perpetuated on film the other day, and now we are plagued with the horrible sight night and day--(this ought to get results...
...emboldened boy had made love like a movie star-and that in turn would have afforded one of the few scenes in history in which cinematic ootchmagootch* was unquestionably authentic. Mr. Boyer makes an artist's façade and unspoken opinions reasonable on the screen, Miss Dunne ought to be able to make quite a go of politics. Mr. Coburn, as always, must be described as "dependable." Too often that adjective compares unfavorably with a blunt instrument. In his case, however, it covers a multitude of talents...