Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ministry carried on without him, however, informing Frenchmen that, the minute they caught sight of a flu suspect, they ought to press a handy piece of gauze over mouth and nostrils. One eminent physician declared: "Consumption of alcohol is at least as efficient a preventive as any drug." Beneath public health notices declaring: "He who avoids flu performs a public service," France's barflies drank deep and gloriously in the full consciousness of civic virtue...
...rate, something ought to be done about the present lack of emphasis on speech at Harvard. Budding young lawyers, or businessmen, or chairmen of corporation boards will all have to express their ideas vocally as well as in letters. True enough, most Harvard men learn how to talk reasonably clearly simply by practicing all the time. But there is enough of a demand for more formal training to indicate that the University should consider a re-evaluation of the importance of speech in its curriculum...
...Think We Ought to-" But beyond displacing Taft, the rebels appeared to have no concrete program. Said Lodge bravely and vaguely: "We want to have a more up to date approach ... I think we ought to compete with the Democratic Party on how to give the best service to the people in their problems. I don't think it is any good to tell the people that they haven't any problems...
Perhaps Americans ought to listen to the Moscow radio more. What they have been missing was disclosed this week by a monitored transcript of a Christmas broadcast, beamed in English to North America. A heavyhanded tale of Santa Claus and the FBI, the broadcast would make most U.S. citizens snicker. But after the snickers would come a little better sizing-up of the Soviet Communist mind...
...wonder when Cole Porter's next smash was coming; Kiss Me, Kate marks an interval of five years and two flops since his last hit show (Mexican Hayride). In the barren interval he also had to endure a film biography, Night and Day, of which he said: "It ought to be good because none of it is true...