Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Garner, who said: "You are going to have to pay back the fellows from whose wages you get the money. Who is going to pay them back? The Government? Well, who is the Government? Where is the Government going to get the money? ... I believe we ought to figure on paying for the maximum amount that we can as we go along...
...connection with the Crimson's story of yesterday on American Defense, Harvard Group, I ought to point out that the group did not itself establish a Harvard Hospital for Communicable Diseases in London, but that its Committee on Medical Service has cooperated with the University in raising funds for such a hospital, to be sent to Great Britain...
...hard facts of a closely restricted budget, plus the lack of available men, make it impossible to fill this gap by next semester. Perhaps by next September the catalogue will announce a course in "International Relations--Pan-America." Meanwhile a temporary and immediate method of satisfying the growing demand ought to be devised...
...Senator told his colleagues about the taxi driver that morning who had asked him what he was going to do now for a living. Said Ashurst: "I said, 'I think I shall sell apples. For almost 30 years I have successfully distributed applesauce in the Capitol. I ought now to be able to sell a few apples...
...year-old Senator, whose going will leave no hole in the sky but will take something fresh and honestly wise from Washington, had some advice for his colleagues. Said Ashurst, solemnly: "... I shall not waste any time on such miserable twaddle as to say that I ought to have been elected. ... It is the undoubted right of the people to change their servants, and to remove one and displace him with another at any time they choose, for a good reason, for a bad reason, or for no reason at all. If we are to remain a free people...