Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British torpedo planes nabbed the German Bismarck, laid her low for the kill? Did not another British torpedo plane last week hunt down a Nazi pocket battleship, send her limping home (see p. 44)? And did not all these facts add up to the conclusion that the U.S. ought to copy Great Britain's independent R.A.F., the Nazi Luftwaffe, and turn its air power over to independent, unfettered airmen? Most Congressmen who last week asked themselves these oversimple questions answered with an oversimple Yes. The subtly simple New York Daily News, advocating independence, even found...
...which would put most corpulent U.S. colonels hors de combat. In nearly four years of fighting, the young officers have mastered the arts of the field-silent de ployment, timely retreat, sudden concentration, plausible ambuscade, dependable supply of vegetable camouflage. Lacking artillery, they still know when and how they ought to use artillery...
...people." Asked whether he felt that 0PM should seek a new power expert, Ickes replied: "Why, they haven't got one now." And Mr. Kellogg? "Ha! He's worth all of the $1 a year he's being paid. . . . Papa [Washington's name for Knudsenhillman] ought to take Mr. Kellogg into the inside office and tell him a few facts he doesn't know...
...consents to fly to Lisbon with him. Says she: "I knew he loved me the minute he told me I smelled good." Plane seats for this clandestine journey are miraculously proffered by the Earl after she remarks: "I'm only going to be there overnight." Observes he: "That ought...
What he meant was that the documents planted in her luggage ought to succeed in trapping a ring of Nazi spies operating in Lisbon. They not only trap the spies but also ruin the loving couple's tryst. Whereupon, Miss Carroll and Mr. MacMurray, with the entire British Navy serving as shotgun, take off for the U.S. and marriage...