Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last a break in the ranks of your uniformed covers to let the world have a glimpse of a truly great and timely hero. Such recognition of men of science or art ought to be increased. What they contribute is immeasurable and yet they have all too often remained in oblivion while every schoolboy is taught history in terms of battles and their leaders, regarding their exploits as the ultimate in human achievement. A surer road to peace for the future would be the encouragement of youth's devotion to the more constructive leadership of the healers, the builders...
...Professor Sakimura came to certain heretical conclusions: Germany's economic position was not nearly so strong as the Nazis pretended or Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Oshima believed. The United Nations were winning the war. Inevitably, his own country's anachronistic feudal system would give way. Japanese like himself ought to fight for their ideas, break with their Government, dissociate themselves from a wrong and losing cause...
...What plans are there for the 'larger brotherhood' of Europe, which needs it first and most? By what process are our present foes to be brought to play the part they ought to do in that brotherhood? What surety is there that our present friends will keep their comradeship in a Europe split again after...
World Affair. As usual, Mackenzie King tied up his objections to Common wealth centralization with his general idea that big powers ought not to dominate the world, and that a strongly centralized Commonwealth would be too prone to play Big-Power politics. Precisely that idea seemed to prevail at the conference last week. A closer-to-home reason for his stand was his conviction that Canada must be in a position to go along with her big neighbor, the U.S., even when the U.S. goes against the British Commonwealth...
...stomachs the Lord would solve all problems by taking them away from here." Maria's husband spent most of his time in bed, gloomily waiting for the day when the Lewises would throw him out. "It's all dead wood," snapped crazy Grandma, of her household. "Somebody ought to come along with an ax. . . ." But Catherine believed that two living things remained: Aunt Willy's stallion, and a vigorous neighboring farmer named Tom Manigault. Life began again for her when the stallion won first prize at the State Fair, and the farmer became Catherine's lover...