Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left among the dead for two days, dying of thirst, when at last a Hindu battalion of the Indian Army visited our village and rescued me. I insist revenge be taken on these traitors and brutes. We ought to declare war on Pakistan...
...practices provisions, or on the basis of some new law not yet on the statues; but proceedings will, in all probability, never get that far. The fifth column activity of those unwilling to let foreign and non-union recording musicians make hay in fields that used to be theirs ought to do the trick...
...skinned Nightclub Singer Lena Home told an interviewer from the Negro picture magazine Ebony:"The people who make me burn are the Negroes . . . who make .heir money off of Jim Crow and who won't fight it. Even worse are the Negroes . . . who hate all whites indiscriminately. . . . Negroes ought to have better sense than slamming a whole group at once...
Therefore, it seems to me, we should not be unduly depressed if the Soviet-Communist forces should decide to part company with the world organization. Certainly we ought not to give away anything which is essential to our security in order to persuade them to linger with us for the purpose of paralyzing the joint harmonious action of three-quarters of mankind...
...last week, the cameras started shooting a picture called The Boy with the Green Hair. When a spectator asked about the plot, an RKO pressagent replied: "It's terrific. This boy wakes up, see, and he's got green hair. Then everyone who sees him knows there ought to be more, tolerance." But how could a movie possibly be made on that faintly mad kind of a plot? "Well," said the underling, "maybe nobody else could make one out of it. But Dore Schary will pull...