Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the management of U.S. affairs is bumbling, foolishly snooty toward liberal elements, unnecessarily solicitous of Fascists, insufficiently cooperative with the Russians and the Chinese. The sacking of Welles made him the darling of Hull's "liberal" enemies-a good deal more of a darling than perhaps he ought to be on his past record. To replace Welles with an Under Secretary whose main virtue is that he is a Hull man would almost certainly release another critical barrage, and again seriously diminish U.S. confidence in the State Department...
...China. "Well, here I am." he wrote back to Fort Worth, "a little closer to home because the world is round. I led my new squadron across a hell of a lot of country to get here. . . . Came over Palestine-Jericho, where the walls came tumbling down. I ought to make a good Sunday-School teacher when I get back and I think I will. . . . Met General Chennault day before yesterday and he sure is a swell egg. . . . We're the first of the P-38s over here...
This characterization of the British Broadcasting Corp. appeared in Claud Cockburn's leftist London newsletter, The Week. British radio listeners might quarrel with it but few of them would deny that something ought to be done about civil-servantish BBC. Last week, as the time for renewal of BBC's Government charter neared, British voices spoke up and said so. BBC countered with what amounted to a top-drawer shakeup...
...expounded James's second theory as "any demand, no matter how weak it may be, ought to be satisfied," Quoting from James, he said, "The only possible reason for any phenomenon to exist is that such a phenomenon is declared." This can't always be done in real life, Perry remarked, by liberalism ties up with this theory in that the greatest number of these demands should be satisfied...
Give Out! is the work of one Eric Posselt, who thought there ought to be a book of songs sung by servicemen, not at them. He ruled out Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood tunes (except for parodies masculine or martial), tracked down the favorites of the corps and the camps. The collection includes the solemn, the irreverent, the rowdy. There is a long-faced hymn of high resolve by Robert E. Sherwood (Tune: The Battle Hymn of the Republic). Another contributor is Beatrice Ayer Patton (wife of General "Blood & Guts"), whose March of the Armored Corps is appropriately scored...