Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is a great deal of obscurity in modern writing which could be cleared up if writers could be forced (only by criticism) to develop a skill in making positive statement . . . whether in verse or in prose. Statement may make art great and ought not to be subject to fashion...
...first glance, the parents, too, seemed fine; they were just the kind of people who, birth-controllers say, ought to have more children. Except in one case, there was no known insanity in their families. The fathers were scientists, college professors, artists, clergymen, business executives, psychologists, psychiatrists. All but five of the mothers had gone to college; all but one had been active, before or after marriage, as scientists, laboratory technicians, physicians, nurses, librarians, artists...
...long as representatives of the group agree to assume responsibility for keeping the rally peaceable. As for the where and the when, these are issues over which various and complicated arguments can arise, such as whether or not the Yard may be used, or whether or not rallies ought to be held during classes. But the fundamental point that both the Council, in its recommendations, and the Administration, in its final set of rules, must bear in mind is that the rules should apply strictly and absolutely equally to all requests. No group should be subject to any political prejudices...
...golfing at the tender ago of six, when his father decided it would be a nice idea if the whole family took part in his weekend tour of the Briarcliff links. "I just hacked away until the age of 15. Then it suddenly occurred to me that maybe I ought to really start learning...
...told by Jarka that you are writing a book about your experiences in our country. I am eagerly looking forward to it. Nevertheless, I think that you ought to come to us very soon again and to write one more book about Czechoslovakia. About Czechoslovakia suffering and yet not despairing, afflicted by evil and believing in good, limiting freedom and democracy for some only to give it back, revived and strengthened, to all. I think you would understand. Zdenek...