Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people and Lehman's repetition by still more (said Oswald Garrison Villard, "It seems to me that your declaration that a vote for Willkie will be a vote for Hitler . . . touches the low-water mark of unfair, unjust and intolerable partisanship . . . playing upon passions and prejudices which you ought to be the last man in the State of New York to do"). But the President's added comment was, although oblique, much stronger...
...Reader Smith said what Reader Steinman thought he heard, he is a stupider man than a TIME reader ought to be. If Editor Luce started firing people for what TIME says he would have to begin by firing himself, for he shares joint responsibility with the other editors for TIME'S reports...
Lots of Britons and most Americans thought the chances of invasion of Britain ended last month, and that Hitler's concentration of barges was just a decoy; but not the R. A. F., which ought to know. Last week, to please and appease Londoners who had lost much, British planes bombed Berlin for four and five hours a night. But the main heat of R. A. F. attack still licked at German-held ports, all the way from Stettin on the Baltic to Lorient, the port below the cape of Brittany where France built much of her Navy...
Undergraduates often have ideas about what a college education ought to be and why it isn't, but it's seldom that they write a treatise about it to prove their point...
...cold gray dawn of the morning after" has come, the sordid reality is revealed. The last war, as the documents have proved, was not holy at all. And this war is the continuation of that war! So says the Hon. Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the British Empire, who ought to know. Addressing the House of Commons in his famous speech on August 21st last, he stated, ". . . this war is, in fact, only a continuation of the last...