Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hyde Park, said in a particularly encouraging letter: "I feel certain TIME will grow in popularity. It is interesting all the way through and unbiased as far as it is possible for red-blooded Americans to make it so." Mr. Roosevelt closed with a friendly suggestion that we ought to try to get the nation's newsstands to handle it (as late as 1929 TIME'S newsstand sale was only 35,000; this week it will probably...
...think I ought to add that about half of TIME'S present editors came to work for us very soon after they graduated from college-some as long as 19 years ago. We are really quite proud of the number of writers we develop right here in our editorial offices, and one of these weeks I will tell you something about them...
...remembered what he had said when he got his band, all safe, to India: "I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it." Looking at Uncle Joe's picture last week, the U.S. could feel more confident about retaking Burma and everything else...
...women factory workers not to write: "We dance with the men in our rest hour," suggested instead: "I should have enjoyed it so much more with you." It appealed to mothers and mothers-in-law not to gossip, decrying the excuse, "I think you ought to know. . . ." It bluntly explained: "We are not going to get men to fight with 100% heart if they feel their wives are unfaithful to them...
...launch available at the moment, many of the Freshmen have not moved up to the boats as fast as they might ordinarily. Tom Bolles and Bert Haines are scheduled to be back Monday and with more launches available, any Freshman who knows "which end to put in the water ought to be able to get out in a shell," according to Coach Love...