Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator: "I'd like to see some of you fellows who wear out desk tops in Washington set to raising cotton. After you finally got one bale, you'd be so damned tired you'd think you ought to get a dollar a pound...
...miners; the chief reason was to prevent Lewis from becoming "dictator of this country," and they asked the public to help by writing Washington. Whatever Lewis' ambitions, there was little in the Southerners' citations to support their charge. Wrote Columnist Dorothy Thompson, after reading the ad: "There ought to be something like the SEC to protect ... the public against consciously fraudulent or misleading statements . . . that demand political action on the part of the public...
...ought to be ashamed of the article entitled "War and Peace" in TIME, April 28, belittling as it does the honest and growing conviction of the majority of the country that "Aid short of war" is becoming "War short of men" and will end up with "Men short of legs, arms, and lives" and the U.S. "short of Democracy...
...small part in an amateur theatrical separated the phone clerk from commerce.Told he ought to be on Broadway, he proved it by becoming a chorus boy in George M. Cohan's Little Nellie Kelly in 1922. He changed his name to Oakie* and tacked on the Jack because it seemed to fit. A meeting with Director Wesley Ruggles in 1927 led straight to his first picture, Finders Keepers...
...undergraduate sentiment shows itself in favor of the proposed changes, these measures will undoubtedly go into effect next year. Such an important question as this deserves the thoughtful attention of the students to justify the faith that the administration has placed in self-government. No changes, however, ought to be made in the present dining hall system unless undergraduates undergraduate opinion shows itself whole-heartedly in favor of such a change...