Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thaddeus F. B. Wasielewski of Milwaukee, Democrat, 35, 6 ft. 2, 204 lb., won over loudmouthed, rancorous, cankerous Representative John C. Schafer. (Even Republican colleagues used to whistle and hum while Schafer was making one of his splenetic speeches.) "I feel I ought to pinch myself," said young Wasielewski last week...
...elbow to elbow; a low standard of living; the third biggest Navy in the world; a ragged but dogged Army (1,125,000 men in the field, 6,000,000 trained, partly trained and untrained eligibles to draw upon); an economy of trade which according to all the rules ought to have collapsed long ago; two pushy nations for allies; territories conquered (Korea. Formosa, Manchukuo. part of French Indo-China) and stubbornly resistant (China); and for the future, a policy of expansion, a dream of domination...
...Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Willkie set forth five points to which the administration ought to adhere if we are to have a "sound and solvent" financial history, instead of the inflation which he sees impending...
...Penn, the football team played its best football in years. Unfortunately the game was at Philadelphia, and most of the student body did not see the game. In all fairness to the team as well as the students. I think the moving pictures of the team at its best ought to be shown to the whole student body. My suggestion does not end at that. I also suggest that you sponsor a rally before the Brown game on Friday night, at which the pictures of the Penn game, would be shown. John R. Moot...
...neither as old as May Robson nor as young as Shirley Temple"), whether Dorothy Lamour's sarong has a zipper. Before she is through she will visit Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, bear out the observation of her archenemy, Columnist Hedda Hopper, who once cracked: "They ought to change the old adage to 'Be a columnist and see the world...