Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politics. We fight for principles or war is madness. If we deny this, we deny all that the war has cost us and our Allies; we ought never to have begun.... We chose the long, hard road because it was right, as well as expedient for our safety; because we could not tolerate, coming slowly nearer, the denial and destruction of decent living. We went to war for political reasons; and we cannot weaken so long as the 'evil things'-brute force, bad faith and intolerance−have still to be broken, or so long as 'life...
...Ross, you ought to be ashamed. The Copley is just across the street from the Back Bay Station. When does a friend of the "New Yorker" get, off at South Station anyhow? All that indefinable air of well-being, good cigars and whiskey, that subtle compound of Brooks Bros., Yardley and Sulka disappear in a puff of smoke. The ruddy executive becomes a pathetic, puzzled little fellow in a battered fedora, clutching a suitcase in his arms and sweating profusely. He's probably run down at the heel, too. Hell, Harold, you might as well give him a dime...
...American Fascists? If they exist, Mr. Wallace should present us with their names and with concrete evidence against them. . . . Perhaps he is merely throwing . . . reckless charges and abusive language ... at people whose economic and political views differ from his own. . . . The Vice President of the United States, if anybody, ought to learn to weigh his words. . . ." At week's end Mr. Wallace consented to name one of the American Fascists he meant: Colonel Robert R. McCormick of Chicago. But no one, not even the Chicago Tribune, thought that Colonel McCormick was "safely sitting on top of the country...
...Army's vast collection of average guys: "We could use all those privates for sergeants." At the same time the Marine generals always must struggle with the Navy for a bigger role in tactical decisions. Many a non-Marine agrees that the people who do the dying ought to be able to say how they will...
...wife at midnight and strike her?" But the publisher was not unaware of Hardy's possibilities: "You see," he concluded, "I am writing to you as to a writer who seems to me of, at least potentially, considerable mark. . . . If this is your first book I think you ought to go on. May I ask if it is, and-you are not a lady, so perhaps you will forgive the question-are you young?" Replied modest young Hardy faintly: "Would you mind suggesting the sort of story you think I could do best...