Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the conscience of many Christians is troubled, and it ought to be troubled. Certainly Christians cannot with silence accept the errors of commission and omission...
...purges' being carried out in France and Belgium, as the Soviet Government conceives them, ought to include the prominent men who some day may recover enough authority to lead the attack against the semi-revolutionary regimes of today...
...brought upon the world . . . I am more and more convinced that the worst evil genius of that country is not Hitler or Bismarck or Frederick the Great, but Martin Luther. . . . Lutheranism is essentially German. ... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful. . . . The Law of Nature, which ought to be the court of appeal against unjust authority, is identified with the existing order of society, to which absolute obedience is due. . . . We must hope that the next swing of the pendulum will put an end to Luther's influence in Germany...
...ellipsis, Franklin Roosevelt got a tremendous hand. He took it like a veteran trouper. "In my reading copy is another half sentence," he said, "but you got the point and I'm not going to use it. I happen to believe that even in a political, campaign we ought to obey that ancient injunction-Thou shalt not bear false witness...
...socialists by a thumping majority. But out to fight the socialists were Canada's pseudonymous Communists, the aggressive Labor Progressives, whose party line calls for all-out support of Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Behind the Communists were the old-line Laborites (who believe that unions ought to stay out of politics), and the delegates from Catholic Quebec (who welcomed a chance to whittle down socialist strength...