Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could really afford to look ahead. He drew himself a luxuriant picture of days doing nothing, lingering, over breakfast, lazing through the morning, coffee and magazines in the common room after lunch and again after dinner, time even for a little exercise in the afternoons (they say you ought to get into shape nowadays), evenings for movies, dates...
...reduced to dust; even people were taken apart "as though they, too, were made of clay." Soon Ling Tan went into the city and saw it with his own eyes, and when his youngest son vomited, and was ashamed, he told him: "A man if he is honorable ought to be sickened and angry...
...went down the list item by item: "We want more machine guns. Who wants to make machine guns? . . . We need a great many [turbine blades]. . . . Somebody ought to be able to forge these things...
Founder Joseph William Gray was a testy little Jeffersonian who declared in the first scrawny issue of the Plain Dealer that "the stupid fool who cannot, in this age of thrilling events, 'throw some fire into his writings ought to throw his writings into the fire.' " Cleveland was then a mudhole of 6,000 population and six newspapers, including the Eagle-Eyed News Catcher. Editor Gray put his fire into nose-thumbing rhetoric, got himself sued by Horace Greeley, denounced by Charles Dickens (then touring the U.S. like "a peevish cockney traveling without his breakfast"). Bigger fame came...
Monopoly? To any disinterested citizen, these proceedings might well appear mystifying. He would think that, with a war on, the Government ought to concentrate on fighting it. CBS and NBC would seem to him to be doing their part, putting on news and Treasury shows and all that. "Monopoly" he would recognize as a word lately adjudged inapplicable to Aluminum Co. of America; and he would wonder why, then, it should be fastened on two competing radio companies that are indispensable to the nation...