Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ought to visit this end of the state, where light and radio waves still travel 186,000 miles a second...
Some like it hot and some like it cold, but just about everybody ought to like "The More The Merrier" which is alternately both but always entertaining. The picture is nil if judged by any standards other than those of amusement; it has no particular message, nor do artistic criteria appear to enter in save to make the bits of humor more appetizing. But the picture is such a marvellous vehicle of entertainment that, especially during this particular period of the season, the tariff is more than repaid...
...moral philosophy at London University (in a review of Julius Hecker's Religion and Communism, in 1934): "I can come ... to only one conclusion and it is a conclusion that all true friends of religion will share - nearly all that religion has been, and has meant, in Russia ought to perish for ever from the face of the earth and from the memory of men." Does this explain the traditional bias of Russian Communist leaders against things religious...
This venture, known as the U.S. Army Hit Kit, was started several months ago by Major Howard Bronson and Captain Harry Salter, a onetime radio musical director. The Special Service Division thought U.S. doughboys ought to have something up-to-date to sing, to provide a substitute for Army bands which are often left far behind the front. The Army has since found the Hit Kit useful in another way. U.S. forces rolling over occupied territory in tanks and jeeps make a friendly impression on native populations by bellowing such tunes as Roll Out the Barrel...
Though he deplores unnecessarily early deaths from heart disease and advises all precautions to prevent them, Dr. Steincrohn thinks heart disease is the ideal way to die. It should be "the grand climax of life, and it ought to occur near the conclusion of the last act-at about 80 or 90 years...