Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dropped out after a phone call to his wife, one fell asleep, three appeared still sober after seven drinks. Shouted one: "Here they feed me full of this blooming bourbon when they ought to know from my looks that I am a Scotch drinker pure and simple...
...news technique in a classic story in 1857 headed A BRUTE. One James Wheeler was fined $5 for maltreating his wife. The Tribune story concluded: "A few months' experience in breaking stones in the Bridewell would do this Wheeler a 'power of good' and he ought to have been sent there." McCormick retains the method...
...Consolidated's stock), imposing the Fleet pattern on men and things. Rube Fleet does not expect other people to know as much as he knows, but he expects them to know the same kind of thing. Because he has a prodigious memory for figures, he thinks his executives ought to know the capabilities of the plant's fire-fighting apparatus, the floor space of their offices, the date of many an unimportant happening in the past...
Bloomington's gouache show was the idea of Illinois Wesleyan University's thin, goggle-eyed, 30-year-old Instructor Vincent Paul Quinn, who thought his students and art-loving Bloomingtonians ought to know about one of the most popular paint mediums...
...Tupper's second study-of Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, et al.-is still in the we-ought-to-have-one stage...