Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Educators quickly took alarm. Said 14 Harvard facultymen: "In the books will appear many statements to which any reader with special interests will inevitably take exception. We hold that this ought to be the case. . . . Our schools need challenge and . . . the vigor of intellectual controversy." Replied the N. A. M.: "The aim was . . . merely to determine the facts. . . . The public will have a factual basis upon which to judge what, if anything, should be done...
...metal, and the new plant will be an integrated setup including fabrication units. With the ground-a-clearing, Kaiser had a new goal at week's end: he wants to (and probably will) get the plant into operation inside of six months instead of the year it ought to take...
...presiding judge quip "You hope not," suggest waggishly that all three Sitwells ought to testify at once...
...They've got lots of nice brunettes over there," one of the cadet sailors remarked wistfully. "We haven't got many dark-haired girls at home but if you like blondes you ought to come to Sweden sometime...
Result of this flexible system: it gives the individual businessman leeway to do his best individual work. Said Mr. Willkie: "The enterprise fella can enterprise. You ought to see the way Rootes goes after his job. Most of them are thinking, 'If we can outperform the Government arsenals, we can convert them into private factories after the war and there won't be any nonsense about whether private enterprise will survive or not.' So they're working their shirts off. Of course they also have the motive of patriotism, but the big thing is their natural...