Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gradually, like all good things, it came to an end, and no more names have been added to the lists for the last three years. I ought to know, for I kept the lists...
...start that, what will happen? Why, the newspapers will be the first ones to jump on us and say that we are bitching up the war effort, that we are mixing in stuff that we have no business to, that we ought to shut up and let the Army and Navy...
...American people have always been a debating society. . . . They always have views. They always speculate about events. . . . It comes from concern to win the war and they ought to be allowed to grouse and gossip a little without being Sixth Columnists...
Later, to correspondents at New Delhi, he expounded a salty preface. Said Uncle Joe: "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. ... The Japanese are not supermen. If we go back properly proportioned and properly equipped we can throw them...
...radio's two big program surveying concerns (the other: Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting, which gets out the "Crossley" ratings), the results were a personal triumph. He had long maintained that, since daylight saving means little to 70% of Americans except through their radio dials, broadcast schedules ought to stick to standard time...