Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government leaders. He had even attended meetings of the inner War Cabinet. It was certain that he would tell the President all he had learned about British peace aims. It was all but certain that Franklin Roosevelt would then tell the U. S. as much as he thought it ought to know. That would probably be enough to convince most of the U. S. that Britain was fighting for democracy...
...President Roosevelt for his message to Congress in January, the spirit of internationalism in America (in any of its familiar forms) is virtually non-existent. These facts are the common property of anyone who views the American scene as it is, and not merely as he may think it ought...
...American Association of Lexicographers & Grammarians (if there is such a body) ought to have you birds indicted for counterfeiting of and assault and battery on the English language. There never was and probably never will be such a mass of verbal contortions and hodgepodge within two covers as appear weekly in your dizzy rag. I only read it once in awhile for fun. If I read it completely every week, I'd soon be as dizzy...
...Most significant section: "Whatever in connection with my professional practice, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge...
...acquire sureness and scope. After Private Lives even Robert Benchley was encouraged to say: "Certain curmudgeons m these parts will hear with relief that Miss Lawrence has somewhat abated since her last didoes in New York. She can now express wild surprise without such feats of contortion as really ought to be saved up for the more startling details of the Last Judgment...