Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battles (as soldiers know, and newspaper editors do not) are usually fought, not as they ought to be fought, but as they can be fought; and while the literary man is laying down the law at his desk as to how many troops should be moved here, and what rivers should be crossed there, and where the cavalry should have been brought up, and when the flank should have been turned, the wretched man who has to do the work finds the matter settled for him by pestilence, want of shoes, empty stomachs, bad roads, heavy rains, hot suns...
...successive evenings at the Old Howard and $5.25 (for roses) was what the Crimson Network's first program manager had to spend before he succeeded in convincing Ann Corio that she ought to come up some time and giggle into the College station's microphones...
...unfinished. But the problem of disposing of student furniture for the duration has not been solved, and hopes for a practical answer have been left dangling. Time is running out too rapidly to delay a decision. If neither the University not the Council can prove helpful, the undergraduates ought at least be informed promptly and be enabled to make other plans...
...political opponents without mercy. Whether he bases his philosophy consciously on religion or not, he believes that it is wrong to coerce and torture human beings (wrong mind you not inexpedient) wrong to have a government based on informers and intimidation. He feels it in his bones that men ought to be free. He looks forward, therefore, to having more human liberty on this continent, not less. To this end he may wish to make radical changes in the political and economic structure of America. Like Thomas Jefferson, when he abolished primogeniture, a citizen of this republic may today wish...
...moon is clear that harbor ought to be framed like a picture," our flight leader, Major S. R. Patterson, said to me as we took off in his Pink Lady...