Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...verse cut out: What does this band of slaves want, These traitors, these plotting kings? For whom are these infamous tortures, These chains prepared so long ago? These chains prepared so long ago? Frenchmen! Oh, what an outrage for us! What violent feelings this ought to arouse! We are the ones they dare to think of returning to slavery...
...some of us at the School made up our minds that war was inevitable, and that the chance of this country's being involved was very great, and we started preliminary conversations with the planning division of the United States Army to see what the function of the School ought to be in war time...
...Harvard man ought to feel that his contribution to the war effort must be devious and delayed. The civilian is as important as the soldier in this war, and there are enough opportunities for civilian defense work to take up the time of everyone who isn't in the Armed Services. The Harvard War Service Committee and the Harvard A. R. P. Organization need wardens, fire fighters, first aiders, and other workers. The Interceptor Command headquarters in Boston needs volunteers, as do a number of Boston hospitals, which are very short of orderlies. Settlement houses in defense worker communities need...
...Hitler's favorites was his longtime chauffeur, the late Julius ("Pistol") Schreck, who sometimes concealed as many as seven guns about his person. In 1937 one of Hitler's adjutants told Schreck, who had a swollen jaw from an abscessed tooth, that, looking as he did, he ought not to drive the Führer. Schreck went to his garage, slashed at the abscess with a screwdriver, tried to extract the tooth with a pair of pliers, left for his drive with a raging fever, subsequently died of infection. Hitler wept openly at his death...
Unless war service interferes this bodes well for next year. With this summer's series of games with Army and Navy teams under their belt, the greener Juniors and Sophomores ought to have less inclination to tense when the heat is on. A sprinkling of capable Freshmen may also be expected to move up into vacant posts...