Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...draft soldiers, why not draft everyone?"). He covers his lack of political and business experience by an engaging candor: "Lots of people ask me questions about problems I don't know anything about. . . . I don't owe anybody anything, so when I figure out what a man ought to do, I can go ahead and do it." To offset the war heroics, Gillespie's backers are trying out the slogan of World War I's nurse Edith Cavell: "Patriotism is not enough...
...book had scarcely appeared before Harry Hopkins denounced the letter as a forgery. On second thought he set the FBI asleuthing. Republican Senator Wil liam Langer of North Dakota thought the Senate ought to investigate, too. He said he wanted to find out if Hopkins was "now dabbling in Republican politics." He made a 57-page speech in the Senate, illustrating it with photostats of letters Sparks had given to him. These were let ters between Sparks and a man named George N. Briggs. If they were genuine, they indicated that Briggs had given Sparks "The Hopkins Letter...
...education and training. And I wondered whether the evil of that kind of politicians whose attitude toward good government so frequently in negative, might not be reduced by more attention to the training of men for statesmanship. I suggested the commonplace which anyone who knows any thing at all ought to know, that in this particular, England has gone farther than we. But I said nothing about "selection," and the whole burden of my suggestion was that such training should be given in colleges--which is quite the reverse of what you caused...
...were certain specific remedies that the old doctor gave the patient. The people who are peddling all this talk about "New Deal" today are not saying anything about why the patient had to have all those remedies. The President was inclined to think that some people in the country ought to have it brought back to their memories...
...rush into something rash? And why settle for anything but a strictly 50-50 partnership? The British were not yet ready for a cross-Channel assault, anyway. The U.S., said Burt Wheeler, once took orders from Britain, but now seemed to be "following the demands of Mr. Stalin. . . . We ought to be extremely cautious before calling on American boys to make these tremendous sacrifices...