Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famous Haushofer geopolitics and observed that Haushofer's most cherished dream-of a Russian-German bloc dominating the Eurasian land mass-had failed; that by sheer luck "America and Asiatic Russia, the greatest continental powers on earth, are united. . . ." What "united" has meant so far, and what it ought to mean if power politics is not to send the freshmen children of last week's freshmen to war again, formed the burden of another professor's plea. In support of a World Government now, he brought up the example of Winston Churchill's offer of union...
...when Smith said, in answer to a question, "The deepest conviction that any Congressman ever has is that the will of the people ought to prevail. And when you think he is selling out other convictions, he is subordinating smaller convictions to the deepest conviction of a democratic representative," from the audience rose a shout of "No," a chorus of boos, and a hearty groan. On the Blue's national network, the groan echoed from Maine to California...
...staff of the Lovell Hospital of Fort Devens thought it strategic to withhold their pitching ace Joe Waish from facing the Crimson last week and save him for a league game the following day, the results of their calculations ought to have changed their minds...
...departments of the Government, especially in a free country, the highest, and the one we ought most to revere, is the judiciary. The most important thing to preserve our liberties and rights as citizens is to keep on the bench judges who have ideas of right and wrong, who have the courage to enforce them, and who will not be interfered with by the mandate of any boss on earth...
...their driving on the rationed East Coast by 55-65%. Dow Chemical's Thiokol (TIME, June 29) is the great white hope, with serious talk of enough by fall to retread 1,000,000 tires a month (out of 150,000,000 in use). Nonetheless, people who ought to know (like the Petroleum Industry War Council) were still talking last week of a reduction of cars in use-for lack of rubber-from 27,000,000 now (v. 20,886.000 in 1932) to 23,700,000 at year...