Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should permit vigilantes [i.e., the Congress] to trample down their liberties and the American way of life. . . . It is going to require a lot of courage and a lot of action to forestall the enslavement of the N.A.M.-Taft-Hartley bill. Those whose wishbone is where their spinal column ought to be will fall by the wayside...
...weeks ago 60-year-old Mr. Lundy began acting a little odd. He told some neighbors: "When people get this old, they ought to be shot." Emily said: "He's not well, but we can help...
...three days across the border the President had conducted no state business, but had done much to foster good-neighborly relations-just what he wanted. In his quiet way, the President had scored a big hit. Said a telegraph clerk: "That smile kind of gets you. He ought to come back often." clanged out The Missouri Waltz, the President, now in frock coat and silk hat, walked across the street to the Parliament Building with Mackenzie King. The House of Commons chamber was full. Bess Truman, in the Speaker's Gallery, smiled down from under a huge white...
...Monge will soon be joined by Dr. Harry G. Armstrong of the School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field, Tex., a leading U.S. authority on high-altitude effects. He ought to learn much, Dr. Monge thinks, by studying Andean Man, a fellow already adapted to altitudes almost as high as many an airplane...
...story is no more than a fair excuse for the neat moviemaking which makes this picture entertaining. It is smartly directed by Michael Gordon. Mr. Price, with his sloping charm and his foulard voice, is just what a really villainous Wall Street operator ought 'to look like. Ella Raines has a lot of sneering snap as the kind of top-grade personal secretary whq works a 168-hour week. Edmond O'Brien shows enough honest heelishness, and little enough hard-boiled mawkishness, to be one of the most likable of the tough young thriller heroes who move into...