Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presser of men's pants, Benjamin Jacobson, was definitely nor the least interested spectator at the opening session of Dick Harlow's course in character building. Benny, resplendant in blue blazer, gilt buttons, and gray fiannels, felt that "with a few breaks and a bottle of Energine we ought to keep a clean slate...
...policies. And seven Senators started out on a special committee investigation, headed by Vermont's Aiken, to find a "long range program" that will "get crops on consumers' tables without having price increases of 300 or 400 percent." An AFL spokesman suggested to a Congressional committee that consumers' cooperatives ought...
Dewey had a trial, got licked, so ought to stay out, while Taft should know that he will never get to first base. Even Harry Truman will go around Taft...
...Marines was surrounded by 600 rebels; Rowell loaded up his De Havilland biplanes with 17-lb. bombs, pinpointed them by diving at the target, routed the enemy. He later demonstrated his technique at the 1932 Cleveland Air Races. Looking on: Luftwaffe Colonel General Ernst Udet, who commented: "We ought to try it in Germany." They did. Result: the famed Stukas...
...boss of Saks, and as a genial extravert who likes to air his opinions, Adam is not above telling Sophie how she ought to run her fashion business. Sophie usually ends such discussions: "Now, Adam, dear, we've been all over that before. You know how familiar I am with the subject, so let's not discuss it again...