Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...person who believes that change is not only inevitable but desirable, and that unfortunately somebody is going to get hurt. This is contrasted to the revolutionary, who feels that numerous people ought to get hurt, or to the conservative, who appears generally to be the person who will get it in the neck...
...Republican platform, Dewey pointed out, declared the party's support for broader social security, for public housing and public power, for farm price supports. Said Dewey: "We have in our party some fine, high-minded, patriotic people who honestly oppose . . . such programs. [These people] ought to ... try to get elected in a typical American community and see what happens to them. But they ought not to do it as Republicans...
...party, we try to go back to the 19th Century, or even to the 1920s, you can bury the Republican Party as the deadest pigeon in the country . . . What we ought to do is to stop bellyaching about the past . . . and start making it everlastingly clear to the country where we stand...
Ruth Kerr is a blue-eyed, plump, soft-spoken woman who believes that the Lord will provide, but that a body ought to help Him all she can. She has increased the company's output elevenfold, partly by branching out into making jars for industrial canners. She walks around her plants in sensible shoes, and shuttles between factories by plane. Last year her company turned out more than 100 million jars, not far behind Muncie's Ball Brothers Co., the biggest U.S. canning-jar maker. Last week, in a nip & tuck battle with Ball...
...public ought to have the right to read about a hearing in a newspaper, or to hear it on the radio," Lyons said...