Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undoubtedly ought...
Frank Sinatra's left eardrum kept him out of the Army. He made a sleeper-jump from a Boston date to one with the Army's doctors in Newark, learned that the drum was punctured, learned that he ought to get more sleep, learned that he was now 4-F, moved on to a two-week stand in Pittsburgh...
...theme here is "Breaks Gotten by College Men In A Ten Million Man Army Where There Isn't Too Much Time To Look Into The Individual Qualifications of The Guy Who Thinks He Ought To Be An Officer Because Well Just Look At That Dumb Shavetail." The Army is chuck full of officers, so forget it if you're thinking of having your Old Man buy you a commission in the Black Watch or the Third Highland Fusileers when you graduate from A-12 or Boy Scout Troop...
Last week Secretary Ickes, Petroleum Administrator, said unfinished Canol "is worth nothing and will have no value after the war," declared it "ought to be junked now." A WPB expert asserted that the 550-mile pipeline being laid between the oilfield and the refinery at Whitehorse in the Yukon will never function effectively because the mountainous wilderness it traverses is too cold...
Commanders in the field told Colonel Hamilton that training at home ought to stress night fighting. They said: "We mean to take possession at night. Then, let the enemy counterattack at daylight...