Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Barkley trumpeted: "I do not propose to be cowed . . . intimidated. . . . Our constituents ought to send some honest men here if we cannot be trusted to buy only the gasoline we need in the performance of our duties...
...Right Reverend Christopher Maude Chavasse, Bishop of Rochester (England), who lost a leg in an auto accident, his diocese sent nearly $3,000 for the purchase of a new leg. To the diocese the Bishop sent a note: "By the time you read this letter, I ought to be experimenting with my diocesan leg. It is a miracle of contrivance, complete with ball bearings and the latest gadgets. More than Saint Paul with his Churches, I ought to bear you in my heart now that I shall be borne on your...
...grass grow under his feet. His very first speech after his enthronement was a call to a unified Christendom ("The world has been much more conscious of the Church's divisions than of its unity in the fundamental principles of the Gospel. This is our fault and we ought to be bitterly ashamed of it."); a ringing redefinition of democracy ("The test of democracy is not whether the majority prevails but whether the minority is tolerated."); and a plea for social reform, culminating in a proposal that all corporations should voluntarily write a dividend limitation into their charters...
...cotton, unlike industry, these worlds are not so very different from each other. CCC men believe that win-the-war policy ought to mesh as closely as possible with win-the-peace policy. For the present, the job is to see that no Good Neighbor sags in its economic joints through loss of its export markets to war. Afterwards, the grand strategy will look something like this...
Multi-busy Deems Taylor steps into the presidency on a part-time basis,* and without salary. Feeling that "ASCAP ought not to be a one-man show," he plans to build a smooth-running organization to do the active work. Quipped Mr. Taylor: "I hope to get the presidency to the point where I will earn my salary...