Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trip had been the idea of an 18-year-old French boy named Jean-Marie LePargneur. He, like his fellow tourists, had spent a year at a U.S. school on an American Field Service scholarship. But he thought he ought to see more of the U.S. than just the school he went to in Beaver Dam, Wis. So did the A.F.S., but it didn't know where the money would come from. Jean-Marie replied, "I feel that anything is possible in the United States." Local civic groups put the students up, and Greyhound lent a bus; the entire...
...Gustav Eckstein wears his science with a difference. Associate professor of physiology at the College of Medicine of the University of Cincinnati, he specializes on the nervous system and, presumably, teaches his students what they ought to know about neurons and ganglia...
...instead of "the bovine and phlegmatic Anglo-Saxons." How Bevan's Labor associates, including Anglo-Saxons Attlee, Morrison and Bevin, liked that one was not revealed. Unphlegmatic Anglo-Saxon Winston Churchill, however, put his head down and charged. Said he: "We speak of the Minister of Health-but ought we not rather to say the Minister of Disease; for is not morbid hatred a form of mental disease, and indeed a highly infectious form? I can think of no better step to signalize the inauguration of the National Health Service (see MEDICINE) than that a person who so obviously...
When Edwina Marsh was a teenager, her father had once said: "My girl, don't be a fool-put your shoulders back, hold up your head, and don't be ashamed to show the world that you are shaped as a woman ought to be." But all her life she remained ashamed, awkward and uncontrollably shy. Now she was 41, "a big colourless woman in a brown skirt and a high-necked blue sweater. The shoulders were square, the neck long and firm, the legs straight and big, like pillars...
...cute at this but, after all, she has other talents; it will be a pity if she gets typed as a hobo. Now & then the picture has real gaiety and flow. More often, it just ambles along. Considering its assets, it is by no means as good as it ought to be. But, considering the hot weather, you could do a lot worse...