Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President F. Leroy Hill, Governor Charles Edison sent a blistering telegram in which he declared that the trouble "seems to be you. . . . You are angry and tired. These are not the elements out of which grows industrial peace." In so many words the Governor told Mr. Hill that he ought to get out for a time and let somebody else run his plant...
...real issue was, of course, not free speech but party regularity, and Boss Flynn was not the only good Democrat who was shaken by this bit of amiable boat-rocking. In Congress, many a loyal follower of the President thought that Franklin Roosevelt ought to sit down and stop rocking the boat...
...young toughs just emerging from a Boston America First meeting glanced across the street at the picket line which was carrying signs, "Wheeler Is Hitler's Stooge," and "Don't Make America Next." "Look at the collegeboys," sneered one of them. "We ought to get them down our way some time." "Never mind," the other comforted him. "We will, one of these days...
...before mainly to little-known and early music, and music in small forms. The program for this Sunday is listed as "English Music from Earliest Times to the Present Day" by Stanley Bates, Composer-Pianist, and if Mr. Bates lives even part way up to his title, he ought to quash the ill-be-gotten notion that the English are not a race of composers...
...index, these rumors have all been based on wishful thinking. If and when the army revolts, turns Hitler and the Nazi gang out of the country, and offers to retire into Germany's borders then I for one will join Mr. Hooking in his present position. We ought then to consider negotiation. Charles H. Taylor, Associate Professor of History...