Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There should be no rushing to the House library to get some acquaintance to sign as the "third person," no searching for the senior tutor, who is out, or the senior assistant tutor, who is also out, or the acting senior assistant tutor, who isn't sure that he ought to take the responsibility. On the other hand, the new system would provide a record and a check for the janitor, and it would be enforceable...
Ames took an unfortunate spill in the downhill at Hanover which cost him one of the top places, but with luck he should figure well against MacLane of Dartmouth and Townsend and Clark of New Hampshire. Ferner is fully recovered from his two broken ribs and ought to be among the first finishers in his three events...
...dawn one day, the Western Fleet swept unhesitatingly right to Genoa, in waters which ought to be Italian if any are. Without regard for enemy mines, submarines, airplanes or shore batteries, the ships lay there and pumped broadside after broadside into Italy's fourth city, her chief merchant port. Over 300 tons of shells flew into docks, warehouses, oil tanks, power stations, supply ships, harbor installations, and into the electric and boiler works of the huge Ansaldo shipbuilding plant. In the whole operation, only one Swordfish was lost. The squadron included the 32,000-ton battle cruiser Renown...
...Daniels in The Nation fortnight ago: "I can keep a secret, even one I did not ask to receive and one that is shared with several thousand other people. But I am saying that I feel very strongly that any regulation of the press in America in the emergency ought not to be a personal and confidential matter between an official and the editors. If I understand the freedom of the press, it does not belong to either the editors or the officials but to the people...
...Boston newsman who first wrote that big, bronzed Stirling Hayden, with his head of unkempt, golden hair, "ought to be in the movies." For months afterward hard-boiled sailors would shout at him across the water: "Yoo hoo! You ought to be in the movies!" When Hayden lost Aldebaran in Charleston, his friend Larry O'Toole, a Boston artist and member of the crew, remembered the newsman, looked him up, through him got in touch with a Hollywood agent. The agent took some photographs of Hayden to Paramount and showed them to Edward Griffith, who was at that moment...