Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...date which will live in infamy," said President Roosevelt of the day Japanese bombers swooped down on Pearl Harbor. You ought to know that the date...
Children would rather read Tom Sawyer than The Rover Boys any day, if they had the choice. Miss Phyllis R. Fenner is sure of it, and she ought to know. For nearly 20 years tweedy, witty little Miss Fenner has presided over a remarkable library in the elementary schools of Manhasset, L.I. Miss Fenner has a sympathetic ear for what children really like, and her library is a favorite hangout of Manhasset moppets. In "Our Library" (John Day; $1.75), Miss Fenner explains: "Give the children the adventure they crave, but give them books written with sincerity and honesty...
...loyalty to Joseph Stalin is unquestioned by Joseph Stalin, who ought to know. Stalin finds him useful in the way Hitler finds Artillery General Alfred Jodl useful-to be always at the elbow to answer questions, to advise, to refuse, to confirm. Boris Shaposhnikov's memory for detail is astonishing; he seems to know Clausewitz's Of War by heart...
...Treatment. With 13 billion Chinese dollars' worth of U.S. and British credit to play with, Daddy Kung ought now to be able to operate more successfully on the gangrene of inflation. Dr. Chiang suggested some ways this might be accomplished...
...Miss Chaney thus in view, the House really gave tongue. For four hours Congressman after Congressman lit into Miss Chaney, Friend Eleanor and OCD. Bayed Missouri's Philip Bennett: "If [she] is worth $4,600 a year, then Sally Rand, strip-tease artist from my own Congressional district, ought to be employed at once because she would, on this scale, be worth at least $25,000 a year to civilian defense." In full-throated chorus, the House voted to forbid the use of civilian defense funds for "instructions in physical fitness by dancers, fan dancing, street shows, theatrical performances...