Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally, Franklin Roosevelt thought exemptions for income taxpayers ought to be lowered. Said he: "Very few tax experts agree with me, but I still think that some way ought to be found. . . . Most Americans . . . are willing and proud to chip in directly even if their individual contributions are very small...
...wondered whether Finland's "war aims" were not mere hopes. And when, at the week's beginning, Finland broke off relations with Great Britain, it seemed most probable that the Finns would get, if they and Germany won, not what they wanted, but what Hitler thought they ought to have...
...isolation . . . as I have observed it in the Army, is a poisonous thing. . . . Our own officers, to my mind, are not tough enough to drill into the men the idea that Hitler-alone-is our enemy and that Naziism must be destroyed before America is safe. Perhaps somebody ought to quit talking about defense and start talking about war. You'd be amazed at the number of men in the Army today who blindly seem to think that if they put in a year of service in company with a million-odd other men Germany and Japan will cower...
...playing golf"). Illinois's Everett M. Dirksen said he did not know "whether public funds are to be expended so that grouchy, golfing old generals will develop a lot of sourpuss soldiers." Missouri's isolationist Senator Bennett Champ Clark called Ben Lear "a superannuated old goat, who ought to retire...
...decided to do things the hard way, perhaps the unnecessarily hard way, by making a frontal assault on the Union position, expected Longstreet to advance at dawn. At 10 o'clock the front was still quiet, and Lee cried out: "What can detain Longstreet? He ought to be in position now." Noon passed, and Longstreet did not feel ready to undertake his seemingly tough assignment. Not until 3:30 did the advance begin; it was 6 when the Confederates actually got a brief foothold on Little Round Top, only to be driven back. Had Longstreet won that bastion...