Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Typical of their desperate opportunism were the landings they made below British lines on the west coast-in waters which ought to have been British right to the bottom. When they took Penang intact, they gathered all the barges, junks, launches, yachts and sampans in sight and set off, like a Japanese print of a Strength Through Joy outing, down the coast. At the mouth of the Perak, near Telok Anson, they sent a large launch as a kind of decoy into the estuary. A British patrol boat approached to investigate. The Japanese strung a line of laundry...
Shut-Eye Weakness. It is not clear whether Air Chief Marshal Brooke-Popham himself understood what it ought to mean. Surprisingly, for an airman, he represented the old school of the British Army. Although the Singapore custom was to take an afternoon nap, he began to drop off at odd and inconvenient hours-in conference, at dinner parties. He was full of a super-Anglo-Saxon complacency, told the public and his superiors that he was ready for come-Hell...
...days early, looking forward to the usual gay, and liquid round. But it hadn't been the same; the old gang wasn't there and every girl Vag met knew some neat guy fighting in the Pacific, which made him feel sharply his own unheroic role. Maybe he ought to join the air corps right away and get sent to the Philippines. "Vag send Jap bomber down in flames"; that would look great in a headline. But that wouldn't do President Conant and some Deans whose names he couldn't remember had said that students should stay at their...
Dilemma. In Yonkers, N.Y., a raid-nervous mother phoned the State Conservation Department, summoned a game warden, asked him what games her children ought to play during air raids...
...food manufacturers are not selling what people ought to eat, they want to know it. Fifteen companies,* with nearly $1,000,000 in subscriptions, last week incorporated the non-profit Nutrition Foundation. Its purposes: 1) to establish cooperative research laboratories; 2) broadcast their nutritional findings freely. To head their foundation they got no less a scientist-administrator than Karl Taylor Compton, 54, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...