Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civilized people ought to have poured the dust of penitence upon their heads. But only one nation remembered last week that ten years ago began the downfall of the post-war world, the illness of civilization which has stricken the whole of Europe and still spreads...
Said Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair, GHQ Chief of Staff, with characteristic frankness: "A lot of these Generals who want to fire their Chiefs of Staff ought to fire themselves. We're going to start at the top and work down. We've got some bum Generals, and maybe I'm one of them, but we're going to weed them out. Have we the bright young Majors and Captains to replace them...
...more immediately cogent reason than either of these was the decisive steps the Army was taking to purge itself of two kinds of bad soldiers: 1) unfit officers; 2 ) enlisted men who think they ought to go home...
...ought not to withhold cotton surpluses, or any stir pluses at times like these. The housewife ought not to be made to pay a tribute . . . when she buys a cotton sheet for her home or a shirt for her husband. . . . This has been historically a land of milk and honey, but too much of it is in the warehouses. Let's make it flow...
...Kennedy listed "the things we ought to do: 1) Money. Have quite a large sum ... to be sewed into my stays. 2) See that each member of the household has a pair of good strong shoes. 3) Have a rucksack . . . for everyone, even Charles (the smallest). 4) Think out an iron ration of compressed food. 5) Remember gas masks, ration books and identification cards...