Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moments in the Senate filibuster last week, some oldtimers had the uneasy feeling that they ought to go out into the Capitol's Statuary Hall and see if the bronze statue of Huey Long was still on its pedestal. Before them in the well of the Senate they saw Huey's pug-nosed, mischievous face, watched his arm chop the air, and heard the voice of Louisiana's murdered demagogue. Huey's 30-year-old son Russell was making his maiden speech...
...like an elephant." Another summed up: "She's amiable, of course, but she's commonplace, that's the word-so full of deportment." Adds Virginia-born Lady Astor, a past mistress of the catty crack: "She gives enormous parties that nobody who's anybody really ought...
...days before election, Communist Boss Gildo Gasperoni produced his trump card. "We expect to bring home 197 Sammarinesi from Genoa, another four or five hundred from the rest of Italy, and 130 who went to France as coal miners. That ought to be enough to swing the election, I think." On election day the expatriates came home with all expenses paid by the Communist-Socialist coalition...
...satire or screwball comedy. Instead he has played it cute and coy. The only really cute thing in the movie is Betty Lynn, who fits her role as snugly as she fits her sweater. The rest, including Rudy Vallee as another pince-nezed fuddy-duddy, is synthetic fluff, which ought to do well in the neighborhood houses by the time hot weather comes...
Yale's Jim Fuchs should win the shot and may also wind up first in the dash. George Wade, another Yale man, took the IC4-A mile in 4:13, which will be pretty hard for anyone to beat today, although Princeton's Ronald Wittreich ought to press him. Dartmouth looks good for the cross country, with the 1948 champion, Stan Waterman, and Penn's Jeff Kirk, a member of last year's Olympic team, will probably set the pace over the hurdles...