Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must inevitably burn out bearings and rattle to a stop. So on Aug. 28 Kichisaburo Nomura carried to Franklin Roosevelt a note from Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye. It contained, by inference, Japan's declaration of willingness to back down. Its proposition was that the U.S. and Japan ought not to let bad feelings deteriorate into worse, and worse into...
...Weighted with responsibilities, labor's own men had cracked down on many a reckless strike leader, read him the riot act. Management's men had shaken angry, executive fingers at hard-headed fellow employers. Out of one stubborn conference with employers a mediator-industrialist stamped, stormed: "Somebody ought to show those damn fools they're 40 years behind the times...
...There is no need for me to assure you that the terms you use have a very positive meaning for me also . . . but do those conceptions sufficiently indicate the distance between us and Hitler? Must we not make the gulf much wider? Ought not our opposition to him to be genuinely Christian? . . . Our resistance to Hitler will be built on a really sure foundation only when we resist him unequivocally in the name of peculiarly Christian truth, unequivocally in the name of Jesus Christ...
...known now that I am not and never have been an anti-Semite; and that Christ's words: "Love thy neighbor as thyself" have a thoroughly cosmopolitan meaning for me. Catholic, Christian, and Jew can and ought to cooperate in preserving this nation at peace. It is regrettable that thus far such cooperation has not been achieved by those of us who are striving mightily for it. Certainly, in injecting this anti-Semitic note TIME magazine has contributed nothing to our efforts...
...living with their folks. Provincial Secretary Harry Corwin Nixon of Ontario says that the seven-year-old quints, who have spent all but the first four months of their lives in the Dafoe nursery, have reached the age of reason, no longer need the State's guardianship, and ought to lead "a more normal life." ∙ ∙ Major General Amos Alfred Fries, 68-year-old retired chief of chemical warfare, won a sharp skirmish with District of Columbia authorities over the height of his privet hedge. They said it was three feet higher than the three-foot maximum...