Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Vargas certainly ought to have known that. In his 10,000 miles, which had carried him up the Amazon basin from Belem to Manaus and beyond, he had rubber-necked at a few of an estimated 300,000,000 untapped wild rubber trees, visited Fordlandia and Belterra, where Henry Ford has a $20,000,000 investment in some 2,500,000 acres. On his return the President had some pretty fancy plans to announce...
...production is elaborate and smooth, though the musical score doesn't touch "Modern Times." Gardiner and Paulette Goddard are thrown in for good measure and a $1.10 ticket. Goddard ought to stick with Bob Hope: at least she got undressed every other reel in "The Ghost Breakers...
When the speakers had finished, their vocal supporter, who looked as though he ought to be a senator of the downeast type, rose to his feet and delivered a short but fervid address which started as a paean of praise for Wendell Willkie and ended as a denunciation of modern youth and Harvard in particular
...Policeman Serrano Suñer was said to have argued that Germany surely ought to be humored to this small extent in view of the fact that Germany had not yet put the screws on Spain to join the Axis. That the screws might soon be applied was evident from the arrival in Madrid last week of Heinrich Himmler, Chief of the efficient Gestapo. Colonel Beigbeder resigned in a huff, his Foreign Ministry going to Serrano Suner. If the Germans are to run Spain, as the potential liaison man Serrano took a step up. If not, down...
...Wall Street's Case. Pomeroy & Co., explained: "In some way unknown to the commission, a copy of the report or the summary was obtained by a newspaper correspondent. . . . When the report had reached its final stages it was supervised by me. As I am a Republican, that ought to set at rest any notion that it was designed as an aid to the Democratic campaign...