Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quaint performance, that review of my novel, Between Two Worlds! [TIME, March 24]. Your reviewer cannot forgive me because I write "easily." He ought to know that I have been 46 years at it; the day when I began may have been before he was born. [Right-ED.] There is a saying that "easy writing makes hard reading"; but your critic admits that in my case both are easy...
...toughest diplomatic job in the Royal Navy-Commander in Chief of the China Station, at a time (1938-40) when Japan was sowing her wildest oats; this post turned Sir Percy's hair from black to grey in 18 months. Now he has a tactical problem which ought to turn any responsible Admiral's hair from grey to purest white overnight...
...truck drivers, laundry salesmen, coal miners, janitors, had sent 857 paintings, sculptures and ceramics. Most of the stuff was terrible. But all of it was displayed. For the Society of Independent Artists has no jury, believes that any U.S. artist who can fork up $5 to pay for expenses ought to have a chance to show his work...
Eliot had no trouble in identifying "What is so rare as a day in June" as the first line of Lowell's "Vision of Sir Launfal." "I ought to know that," said Eliot, "Lowell lived right down my street. In fact, I was the first to recognize his true genius...
...gusto of a man who has starved for months for just such power to put over his ideas. "You can name anything and I would say that prices are already too high," he told his first press conference. "All of our prices must not go higher. All prices ought to come down." To keep them down he promised to use "economic sanctions." Specific industries he said he planned to go into are textiles, coal, steel, drugs, chemicals, non-ferrous metals, building supplies, machinery, hides and leather...