Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public places where people congregate, and actually . . . in private parties [Doesn't that sound just like Washington? asked the President] there are men [today you could add women, said the President] who know who are leading the armies into Macedonia, where their camps ought to be placed, what strategical positions ought to be occupied. . . . They not only lay down what ought to be done, but when anything is done contrary to their opinion they arraign the consul as though he were being impeached...
Model "A." One sure way to make H.F. say "No" is to tell him he ought to do something. The Army & Navy never did. A Navy man simply asked Ford one day if he could take a few sailors into his trade school. Ford asked how many mechanics the Navy needed, promptly spent $1,000,000 of his own money to build a school. Now his school trains 1,200 Navy mechanics at a time...
...ought to make the whole plane, and that way there can be no buck-passing if it isn't right," Ford told Sorensen. "Go ahead and start the plant . . . but leave it so we can expand it quickly to handle the whole job. They are going to need a lot more bombers than they think." He had thousands of men at work long before the Government told him to shoot the works...
...Bond Street shop to get a shampoo and facial, the manager marched her into a private office and said: "I don't want to embarrass you, but after what happened in Hong Kong there is not a girl here who wants to give you a treatment. You ought to go away before you are insulted. . . ." Viscountess Kano left...
...this patriotic game, are interrupting broadcasts from jammed nightclubs to sandwich in gems like "I know that while you're out there enjoying the music you're still thinking of our gallant boys who are overseas giving their all. I don't have to tell you what you ought to do, folks--I guess you all know." Whereupon he stumbles through something about defense bonds and retires, abashed, having succeeded only in sounding completely mechanical and uneasy...