Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deploring the dictatorship tactics of Mr. James Caesar Petrillo, the bully-boy tsar of the odorous American Federation of Musicians. . . . When the high-school orchestra at Interlochen ... is banned from the air because its members are not yet old enough to join the union, a lot of indignant voices ought to be raised...
...English Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham after finding three of them facing him from the ranks of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra "are like the vultures on the battlefield: they appear after everyone else is dead. I believe women should do their worst. They always have done their worst. They ought to go on doing worse than ever. The sooner they're allowed to run their course, the sooner the present era will blow up in ineptitude, inefficiency and incompetence. There will be five years of no music, and at the end people will...
...carping crackpot made this shattering statement last week, but a man who ought to know. It came, in fact, from the head of WPB's Conservation & Substitution Division, mild, white-thatched Harvey A. Anderson. Before he came to Washington he was the ace waste eliminator for American Telephone & Telegraph; now he is a thorn in the side of Army & Navy. Last week, with his big boss Don Nelson engaged in his own grapple with the services over scarce materials, Harvey Anderson was mad enough to blow...
...asked her to take a seat at the rear reserved for Negroes. Mrs. Hayes said she preferred to stay under the fan. The day was hot, tempers short. An argument started. Said usually even-tempered Mrs. Hayes: "This is no time to talk about racial prejudice and segregation. Hitler ought to have...
When asked about the effect of the Summer School on business, the waitress of a chain cafeteria looked out into the room full of soldiers and sailors and said, "We ought to change our name to 'The Armed Forces Canteen...