Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury, said he, still does not want a sales tax, but if there must be one, it ought to be a general tax on retail sales of both goods and services. He estimated that a 5% levy would yield about $2.5 billion. But he unloosed another stinger: a scheme to license tens of thousands of retailers to enforce the tax and 15,000 tax policemen...
...that this is not an overstatement. Surely ours is a cause worth sacrificing for and living for and dying for if necessary. 'Though love repine and reason chafe, there came a voice without reply: 'tis man's perdition to be safe, when for the truth he ought...
...already wilting newshawks copies of his new order that Government agencies cease bickering and airing their disagreements. (He had covered this before, but now he made it stronger.) The man in the street is confused, he said: "Officials divert to quarrels with each other the time and energy they ought to be devoting to fighting the enemy...
...Memphis an automobile salesman walked into the factor's office. "Why don't you get yourself an automobile?" the factor said. "Well, I never thought about one," said Old Man Town. "Whut they wuth?" "We've got a nice little job here for five thousand that ought to get you over your place ail right," said the salesman...
...play's success belongs to Robert Perry, whose deft direction hits just the right pace and spirit for this type of comedy. You'll agree with the management's reminder that "the characters and events in the play are purely imaginary and anyone claiming resemblance or similarity ought to be ashamed to admit...