Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ninety-eight percent of you will wear dark gray flannel trousers between ten o'clock in the morning and one o'clock at night. That is, you will unless a nationally famous fashion authority called General Hershey decides you ought to wear light khaki trousers and a nationally famous health expert called General Hershey feels you ought to wear them starting at six in the morning instead of ten. If that happens, none of my information applies. It's all based on having ninety-eight percent in gray flannels...
...COLLECTS: "SOS messages expressing, in as brief terms as possible, the needs of the church ... A collect, like a telegram, ought to say what it wants to say in a very few words, and at the same time be intelligible...
...churches had a monthly custom of calling for declarations at the altar rail after service. One Sunday he told the girl sitting beside him that he felt a call to the ministry but disliked such public displays. Said she: "If you really feel you should be a minister, you ought to have enough nerve to go down there." He went. Among those he met at the altar rail was Ruth Fisher, daughter of a wealthy oilman, pledging herself to the mission field. Soon after he graduated from the University of Southern California, they married; later she inherited a sizable...
...surprise coming. Billy's first businesslike solution for management problems was to save part of last year's $220,000 loss by lopping off four of the Met's five managers. As for General Manager Edward Johnson, "the mess of red ink on your books ought to tell you that Eddie is badly miscast as bossman of a setup which features 600 Tallulah Bank-heads and a dozen John L. Lewises . . . [but] if he's used only as artistic director, he's well worth his keep...
Mine Own Executioner (20th Century-Fox) is the story of a London lay psychiatrist (Burgess Meredith) who takes on a tougher case than he's sure he ought to handle. Somewhere between neurosis and insanity, a young veteran (Kieron Moore) has tried to strangle his bride. Before the psychiatrist can uncover the root of the trouble, the young man shoots his wife and kills himself...