Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere in his education (at St. Paul's School and Harvard) young Garland had also acquired more ideas than he knew what to do with. But people were not so interested in them. One of Garland's ideas was that people ought to live together in simple peasant communes, sharing love and money. To carry out that idea he organized two April Farms, first in Massachusetts, then in Pennsylvania. In both there were girls in gay embroidered dress, young intellectuals in sturdy work clothes, living as free spirits, the most exotic peasantry that ever came...
...Lord Wolmer's leading critic has been the Rt. Rev. Ernest Barnes, famed Bishop of Birmingham, who some months ago lost a ?1,600 libel suit over remarks he made about the "cement ring." Last week the unrepentant Bishop stood up in the House of Lords to ask, "Ought a Government officer, sitting in a Government building and giving instructions, to be paid by monopolists whom he may have in the national interest to coerce...
...preclusive deals with other South American countries are in the cards. Economic diplomats in Washington look to Colombia's platinum and mercury; Bolivia's tin and tungsten; Chile's copper and nitrates; Venezuela's asphalt and oil-many another product the U.S. can use and ought to keep out of Axis hands...
When this "convoy" system has been set up, next projected step is in air-transport system, which ought to be far more efficient and far speedier than uncertain Chinese gasoline, mule-and coolie-propelled transport. Chinese in Washington are desperately trying to obtain priorities for 24 U.S. transport planes, which will operate from Myitkyina, Burma, the railhead north of Mandalay, to a point two-thirds of the way up the Burma Road...
...with your predecessors ... in the past decade, you go out into a world where the issues are clearer and your course better defined. . . . Barring a miracle, it appears to me that we will become involved directly in this war, and that before very long. ... I personally believe that we ought to become involved, just as soon and in whatever way will most effectively join our forces to those of Britain...