Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smith's new book, a clothesline strung from his best-selling Low Man on a Totem Pole, ought at least keep its author paying stiff-collar taxes. Like Totem Pole it consists of the sort of talk that might be had, by the hour, from any boozy, bawdy, abundant newspaperman. Such talk is dull in spots, complacently boorish in others, childish in some of its conclusions (Westbrook Pegler, though mentally "the human saddle sore" is as a prose stylist "one of the great writers of our day"). At its worst the book has at least the charm...
...nine has been practicing in Briggs Cage since the third week in February, and ought to go outside in about another two weeks. Recently reduced to 38 men, the squad will probably undergo another cut before hostilities commence...
...Sparks ought to fly when the ideas of these men meet, one defending the British viewpoint, the other calling for immediate liberation of India...
Comparisons, with the Battles of Britain and Midway were overblown. Said Robert Lovett, Assistant Secretary of War for Air: "No one ought to get too excited-it's only one round of a continuing battle. lt was like a football coach's dream, in which every blocker takes out his man and the ball carrier crosses the line standing up. . . . Mass air attack by a team, that's what did the trick. The lesson is that if you use air power properly you get dividends...
Most theatres have the bandstand mounted on rollers, so that it can come forward between the vaudeville acts. But not the RKO Boston. That jumble you heard was the music getting its feet tangled in the scenery. It's a pity, because the band sounded wonderful backstage. They ought to scrap the from part of the theatre and put the seats behind the band...