Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening kickoff, and marched 59 yards down field to score. But after that the Bears began to play like cubs. They got fumbleitis: the ball squirted out of their hands five times. California was lucky to win, 7-6. Reminded of his one-point quip, Coach Waldorf mumbled: "This ought to teach me to keep my big mouth shut...
...hurry to get out." And even if Maggie & Jiggs did suggest a tip, he insisted that he always checked it against his charts. That was why he had always been right on long-range predictions, though sometimes wrong on short-range ones. Said he: "Stocks always do what they ought to do, but they never do it when they ought...
...medical staff of Washington's army, he insisted on hospital reforms, quit the service when he failed to get them and became openly critical of the commander-in-chief. When Lewis & Clark started on their famous expedition, President Jefferson asked Rush to tell Lewis what information he ought to bring back. Sample queries: "What are the acute diseases of the Indians? Is suicide common among them? Ever from love...
...sports who are making such a noise and a bother about "eating crow." Among the past exceptions to his theory was the 32-year period from 1869 to 1901, and he has explained it so that it doesn't alter the theory. And if he can do that, he ought to be able to take a period that lasts perhaps only 20 years and fit into the theory with hardly any trouble...
...inmates as it is for the callers: they never know how many calls they aren't getting, they have to wait to make a call, and, in a token gesture to keep the lines free, they aren't supposed to talk for more than five minutes. So the girls ought to do something about it themselves. I understand that the key people in this sort of thing are the Housemothers. Let the girls approach these stern people, and let them demand that the lines of communication be extended. Let them get rid of that derisive repeated blast of buzzing that...