Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rules of the game, the Russian advance ought soon to bog down. The spring floods should halt them-just as mud should long ago have halted them. The irony is that the early spring, which produced mud weeks before the usual time, has produced gradual thaws so that the usual spring floods may not occur at all. At least, the Germans cannot count on them...
...Russian advance halts soon, as it ought to, the reason is more likely to be the necessity of establishing supply lines across the battered Ukraine so that the Red armies can push on again. This may take time, but meanwhile the Germans have another worry. They reported last week that a Red Army of 1,000,000 men stands ready in White Russia to drive across Poland...
...back row, third from left): "Plural marriage cannot be stamped out. Regardless of wars and pestilence, there has always been a surplus of worthy women." Cried Polygamist Rulon C. Allred, husband of six: "Polygamy is a hard thing to live and anyone who thinks it is fun just ought...
...That this war ought not to be supported...
Chips's owner, Mrs. Edward J. Wren of Pleasantville, N.Y., said she thought dogs ought to have medals, but she had a feeling Chips himself would have preferred a pound of hamburger...