Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's Representative Walter Gresham ("Ham") Andrews ought to know as much about the Army as anyone in Congress. A Princeton man ('13), a major of infantry and winner of the D.S.C. in World War I, he has spent most of his 17 years in Congress on military committees. He is now chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Nevertheless, last week he flunked an Army General Classification Test for enlisted...
...Naples. "They wept and threw their arms around me because I wasn't selling the Marshall Plan or telling them how to vote," she reported on her return. "They acted as though I were the last American democrat . . . We've become the old country when we ought to be at the peak of our youth and beauty...
...doubt whether the Free Enterprise Society purposely took a biased survey, but if they are going to call it "the most accurate of any political survey conducted in the college this year, they ought to be a lot more careful. Bob Levine...
...baby boy (TIME, March 15), filed 264 questions she wanted Jim to answer before her paternity suit goes to court. Hadn't Jim told Billy Pichelmayer that he and Christine were married and that she was pregnant? And hadn't he said: "Billy, us men ought to keep our wives barefooted and pregnant"? And hadn't Jim changed the baby's diapers and fed him his bottle...
...feeling. "Worth A Golden Spoon" misses because it rests on an idea never quite made clear--the idea that a beehive, presented to a railroad employee by his associates, has a peculiar and special meaning to him. I couldn't help feeling that the exact nature of this meaning ought to have been indicated somewhere in the story. My objection to "Episode of a House Remembered" is perhaps the result of my prejudice against pieces that are too strictly concerned with mood...