Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...various men come various honors. To Peter Arno, middle-aging glamor boy of Manhattan cafes, cartoonist for The New Yorker, went the honor last week of being chosen the best-dressed man in the U. S. The award was made by the Custom Tailors Guild of America, which ought to know...
...Back from a Hawaii holiday, ready "for the big fight" in Congress, Isolationist Burton K. Wheeler, who thinks Britain can't win but is willing to give her everything she can pay for, said: "If it's our war, we ought to have the courage to go over and fight...
...whose public information services are worse than the worst in Washington. It was also symptomatic of wishful official thinking in Washington that the best way to dispel confusion is to eliminate information about defense. "Information of value to the enemy" was a phrase heard increasingly often. That legitimate secrets ought to be kept secret, no loyal citizen denied. But the French Army ("best in the world") fell in a cloud of secrecy and not until Nazi bombers were over England did the British people know the full measure of their nonexistent airmadas...
...Ford. This is a better way of making democracy work at home than handing the country over to the reactionary wing of the Republican party. And above all, increase production and ship as much as possible to England. If this sort of activity does not interest the Committee, it ought to drop its mask and call itself the Committee against Government Intervention in Business. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, Junior Fellow
...Moines, but to someone in the midst of preparation for an Ec or Physics exam,--it is bittersweet. Everyone is wildly happy through reel after reel. Then a tinge of dewey-eyed sadness and the molasses rolls up and down the aisles in great gooey gobs. The whole thing ought to give even the mildest cynic indigestion for weeks...