Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President, I go further than Bermuda. I think we ought to take Bimini and Nassau, only about 50 miles off the coast of Florida. ... We should not only take the islands which belong to the British there, but we should discuss the appraised value of those islands and deduct their value from what Great Britain owes us as a result of World War I and World...
...Government for failing to give the consumer the benefit of its egg buying. Said he: "It is unscientific, uneconomical, unfair and most wasteful and sinful for the Government to buy eggs to support the market . . . and expect to sell them to the consumers at the same price, These eggs ought to be sold for about 75% of ceiling price to the consumer. The Government could then recoup 75% of its investment and the consumer would get the benefit of low-priced eggs...
...shuns correspondent's uniform, but also suppresses her yen for exotic hats. She lives in the Grand Hotel with the rest of the Times staff, where she rubs elbows with senior Allied officers, high Italian political and social figures. As one correspondent remarked, "She looks as though she ought to be home minding grandbaby or puttering around in the garden, but you change your mind when she starts talking...
...church stands high on the summit of this granite rock, and on its west front is the platform, to which the tourist ought first to climb. From the edge of the platform, the eye plunges down, two hundred and thirty-five feet, to the wide sands or the wider ocean, as the tides recede or advance, under an infinite sky, over a restless...
That's what I want to get back to ... that world back home where a fellow can give the sort of welcome he ought to give to a litter of setter pups in the spring. To watch them grow up with all the other new, young things in a world that's bright and free. . . . Your loving son, Bill." In Normandy the ad caught the eye of an insulted soldier writer for a service paper called Le Tomahawk, who raised a tomahawk and went to work...