Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator George is not much on military affairs, but he knows that though Martinique has formidable natural possibilities for defense, it ought to be a pushover for a combined Naval, Marine and Army task force. That the island has no shore batteries to speak of, and not one airfield-so that the 100-odd dismantled U.S. planes which have sat there since the fall of France could not be used in defense. That Martinique is defended only by an old washbasin of an aircraft carrier, the Béarn, and a first-rate light cruiser, the Emile Bertin, whose crews...
John Cudahy, ex-Ambassador to Belgium, believes Franklin Roosevelt ought to keep the U.S. out of war-and will. Last week, out of a deep sincerity, John Cudahy took to the radio and said...
...thought we ought to have conquered the Irish and then given them Home Rule: that we ought to have starved out the Germans, and then revictualed their country. . . . Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. It would perhaps be pressing the argument too far to suggest that I could do both...
...FORTUNE'S picture of the U.S. today proves anything, it is that, regardless of what path the U.S. ought to take, the old home is no longer there to return...
...Young, "you can't just go off and leave a man's crop like that. . . . And so far you've got the best stand you've had in twenty years." "I don't aim to just leave no man," said Paw, "seems like you ought to be able to git enough hands to finish just this one crop...