Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparently thought that the defense would last a long time. Lenin's city had held out now under five weeks of siege. Stalin's city ought to be able to do as well...
...good, but certainly not tops, as the U.S. figures technical performance. Last week "Bull" Wesson was just back from a visit to London to see what Britain was doing in his line of business. (Said he to a pretty girl abed in an air-raid shelter: "Really I ought to kiss a girl like you good night-but I'm a family...
...other piece of advice, Copper field, you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene and -in short, you are flat...
...could spot a cocoa drinker at 20 paces by the "yellow eyes and degenerate skin." Once he weaned a Sing Sing death-house prisoner from tobacco, several days before execution. During World War I he wired President Wilson that coffee would prevent U.S. soldiers from shooting straight, and ought to be forbidden them...
...consider these pictures art. It seems to me that there ought to be early discipline in drawing just the same as early training in table manners. Once you have it, it always sticks...