Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that while we are going to win the war, we are not prepared to win the peace." Said Georgia's Russell: "It is up to Congress to get busy on evolving a policy. There are many problems which will come up immediately after the war ends that ought to be prepared for in advance. Otherwise we'll be sorry...
...times, had been a headache to the military. But they had come back with one lesson deeply engraved: World War II is a long way from being won. Said Maine's Brewster, summing up: "Our soldiers know how tough this war is. We ought to know how tough...
Barkley: "The Senator from Montana does not contend that the girl who spoke to him, or any other girl in the War Department, ought to be taken out of the Department and placed in the Army...
...Crossing an open field. Why the hell don't they take cover?" A few minutes later he crawled over to a slit-trench phone, talked to a regimental commander. "Of course, your battalion commander knows more about the situation than I do," he said smoothly. "But maybe we ought to get in there fast and exploit this barrage." Back at the outpost, he commented: "We're going to attack in half an hour." But he did not wait. He was off to other forward units, riding with one long leg astride a fender of his jeep...
...avoid dictatorship, jobs ought to be made for at least 55,000,000 workers. . . . The least hopeful aspect of our future is that amateurs are likely to be tinkering with our economic machinery. . . . It should be kept in mind that generous, even fabulous, rewards for those at the top are as a magnet that all along has been exerting an upward pull. . . . After all, what you find in a pay envelope is profit and most of the people I have known in my life have been constantly trying to get a fatter pay envelope...