Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members in Parliament, the cabbies overrode him, voted to go ahead. Grunted Spokesman Ted Morland of Fulham: "It's abaht time our ruddy trade got a look in. I wouldn't mind getting on me hind legs meself and telling ol' Winnie wot he ought to do abaht...
...admitted that she had suffered from "estomac de Normandie . . . a polite name for dysentery." She began rehearsing a new comedy-drama, Errand for Bernice, but said that she "may not be able to stick it" because she is too far from the war. Said she: "I keep feeling I ought to be doing something. New York is just incredible. It's as though peace were already declared. . . . I've never seen so much money . . . so many people buying clothes. It's another world...
Said one WPBster bluntly: "I don't see where the West Coast's holler about V-E day comes in. It will keep slightly more war contracts, but with a pretty good shake on reconversion its position ought to be pretty good. But some Eastern cities where the bulk of the contracts will be canceled at once will be up against it. They'd be only too glad to have some of that West Coast war production...
...been ashore reported that the top of the ridge had been taken and there was no more mortar fire. Two days later another broadcaster said that Jap mortar fire was very inaccurate and ineffective. Those of us who trudged aboard ship simply told them they ought to go ashore and talk to the 200 who had been killed or wounded the night before by those same 'ineffective' mortars...
G.I.s who at first found themselves paupers in price-inflated Paris (TIME, Sept. 18) have by now solved their problem. Since goods were worth far more than money, they soon discovered that they ought to buy with goods...