Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the Germans cannot be counted on to make mistakes such as the Italians made fighting against the Greeks, the Yugoslavs may do brilliantly and still be beaten. The Germans ought to be able to overrun northwestern Yugoslavia coming down in a drive that will outflank and take the great Yugoslavian loop of the Danube Drives were to be expected down the river itself from Mohacs and Subotica in Hungary, and perhaps also from Rumania through the Iron Gate, or from Bulgaria driving towards Nish from Sofia...
Social life at the Park was restricted and proper. In 1886 the colonists had held the first "Autumn Ball." The sensation of that first party was young Griswold Lorillard and a few daring friends who wore tailless dress coats, "which suggested to the onlookers that the boys ought to have been put in strait jackets long ago." Who actually originated the dinner jacket in the U. S. has been a subject of heated argument ever since. Some say it began at a dance of one of the Chowder and Marching Clubs in the Bowery, when leaders of Manhattan...
...trail was cold. But when finally his story did leak out, as stories always do in Washington, it was still hot. For Wild Bill Donovan was one man in the U. S. who was satisfied he knew how the war was being fought and what the U. S. ought to do to help...
...Harar. Soon they reached trouble. Between Giggiga and Harar lies some grim hill country. There the motor road turns and digs through narrow denies, and the hills, with their boulders and scrub, afford plenty of cover for defenders. It is the sort of country where a handful ought to be able to hold off an army...
...little crazy. As soon as he was big enough, Knut dashed off to Stockholm, made himself into an intellectual, eventually became editor of Leisure Hours, a Swedish Saturday Evening Post. But he insisted on giving his readers not what they wanted to read but what he thought they ought to want. Result: canceled subscriptions. This perversity among subscribers, trouble with his wife, and a revival of his feeling for the good earth finally split Editor Toring's personality three ways...