Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...star-cloud in which the sun is one star). Most galaxies have a dense central nucleus, but the nucleus of the Milky Way galaxy (if one exists) is hidden by clouds of dust which block its light. . Reber turned his radio telescope on the place where the nucleus ought to be, and got a "bulge" of powerful radio energy. The nucleus does exist, he concluded, and is sending radio waves right on through the dust...
When the story first came out, in mid-December, Canadians considered it an isolated incident. But last week they were beginning to wonder. In Winnipeg, "Mother City" of the Dominion's 350,000 Ukrainians, a man who ought to know charged that what had happened to Mike Moskal and his friends had happened to most, if not all, of the 6,700 odd D.P.s entering Canada since April...
Said Leahy: "Okay, Louie, if you think you can't get along without him, then I'm convinced you ought to have him. Go get" him." Denfeld did. When he left the President's study, he had Truman's approval of Radford in his pocket...
...edge. Inflation has reduced professors' salaries to $30 (U.S.) a month. The typical student diet: wo ton (millet, cornmeal and water). Laboratories and libraries have never recovered from Japanese ravages; for one history class, Peking has only three textbooks. For the next ten years, Chancellor Hu says, China ought to concentrate all her scholars, dollars and energies on five (or at most ten) select universities. To presidents of the 138 lesser colleges, Hu's plan looks like merger or death. It has already been opposed by officials of Chiang Kai-shek's Ministry of Education, who want...
...could use a lot of the Puritan precepts right now, particularly that of work." More productivity-as distinguished from more production-was a big part of the answer to inflation. Said he: "I don't believe any of us are working as hard as we can or ought to under the circumstances...