Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might be developed to show that the health of society depends on a right balance between monks and laymen-the revolution of the 14th Century took place because the monasteries were full of people ... who had no business there, and the present revolution is being made by people who ought to be in monasteries and are not. I think your book ought to prove potently suggestive to many of these...
...said Acheson, .that would not be an armed attack. But if it were a revolution inspired, armed and directed from the outside, that would be a different matter. The pact, he said, didn't spell it out and shouldn't-when you come to real situations you ought to be able to have some latitude in deciding them...
...Flame. Nobody came, and I don't blame them ... I ought to be run out of town for giving this preferred time...
...tucking the napkin under my chin, when I happened to notice the title. "Boy Meets Girl." Then it occurred to me that in each of the story's four scenes a Boy had met a Girl, and I felt like Balboa. Which goes to show that one ought to read titles more carefully. "Boy Meets Girl" (From Beowulf to the Present) is clever, if weighty; whether the one attribute offsets the other will depend on the reader...
...influence." Another made it even plainer where his sympathies really lay. "My client," he said, "is a weak-willed person [who] sold out to the Anglo-Americans. I ask for one year in prison for my client. If he does not like the way I am defending him, he ought to be frank...