Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...killed by a mob, talks through the bars of his cell with the jail's wispish slavey of a cook (Julie Haydon). Theirs is a brief rapprochement, a doomed romance, of two desperately lonely, anonymous souls. But the scene, quilted down with words, is merely touching where it ought to be intense...
...Well they knew how the Administration had failed to see the danger of labor shortages in time, had failed to act. Snorted Minnesota's dour-faced August Andresen: "There are too many desk farmers in Washington. Fellows who think they can get milk by turning a spigot. Somebody ought to tell them about farming. They haven't done a damned thing about this problem in six or eight months and it's growing more serious all the time...
...Seattle Times called Roscoe James Lamont, who is head of the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. yards where Magnuson worked. Lament hit the ceiling: "If you run those articles you will be raising more hell than any bunch of people in the city of Seattle. . . . Your whole God-damned bunch ought to be ashamed of yourselves. You are giving the company, the men and the war effort a stab in the back. How in the hell can you call yourselves Americans? . . . How the hell do you suppose the boys overseas will feel...
...spread the story. Reluctantly Old Tack pondered, then cut the E from its frame and gave it to the beaming lieutenant. Said Gene Howe: "It's only an incident, and there are no sore spots on us. The lieutenant is doing a most excellent job of recruiting and ought to have the E himself." On the bare frame which had contained the E Publisher Howe hung a mourning wreath...
...Janie ought to be more fun than it is. It has some amusing lines, some lively moments. It brings a timely touch of khaki to the timeless absurdities of youth. But it isn't buoyant or spontaneous enough; all its breeze seems to come from an electric fan. It has that terrible noisiness which is the bane of too-innocent merriment. Refreshing is the still, small voice of Janie's baby sister Elsbeth (Clare Foley), who at seven is a past mistress of espionage and blackmail. Elsbeth is funny. The rest is formula...