Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine evening the handsome young CPA informed his little wife that statistically speaking there ought...
...blisters. The Indiana tires, said the officials, were defective early products. Said Dewey: "We are now producing synthetic passenger-car tires which, if driven at legal speed, will stand up so well that the average driver won't be able to tell the difference from natural rubber. They ought to be good for 20,000 miles...
...complaints ebullient Mr. May has a pat answer: "If you're aggressive like we are, you run into things. You ought to hear what some of these guys say about...
...have found him hard to locate, for he often could not locate himself: his absentmindedness was prodigious. He was sometimes obliged to buy a copy of his own weekly (G.K.'s) to find the address of his office. "Am in Market Harborough," he once wired his wife. "Where ought I to be?" Frequently he wore two ties at once...
...present they are suffering from an utterly abnormal unhappiness. They have got all the tragic elements essential to the human lot to contend with; time and death and bereavement and unrequited affection and dissatisfaction with themselves. But they have not got the elements of consolation and encouragement that ought normally to renew their hopes or restore their self-respect. They have not got vision or conviction, or the mastery of their work, or the loyalty of their household, or any form of human dignity. Even the latest Utopians, the last lingering representatives of that fated and unfortunate race...