Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before, Gromyko insisted again that the U.S. must destroy its stockpile of atomic bombs, and stop making them. He still wanted Russia and the rest of the Big Five to keep the ultimate right to veto U.N. punishment of nations caught violating world atomic rules. And, said Gromyko, there ought to be an International Control Commission which would "periodically carry out inspection of [atomic] facilities" in all countries...
...Franklin Roosevelt called Gruening to the White House, greeted him with a grin, cried (although they had never met) : "Where have you been keeping yourself? I understand you know a lot about Cuba. Tell me what we ought...
...picture's writers, director and musicians have done some effective things with sound (heartbeats, exaggerated rain, distorted musical flashbacks, etc.) and with storytelling; they have even risked confusing the audience by taking it a little way inside Joan's split sense of reality. Other moviemakers ought to take more such risks: the results are much more exciting than confusing...
What Beulah needed, Adela decided, was her mother: "Someone who could say to her, 'Louise . . . you ought not to sit there in a bright, striped blue-green dress with your arms bare to the shoulder . . . your arms aren't your best point . . . they look too strong...
...psychotics who are, or ought to be, in institutions, a large proportion are curable. Recovery from depression is "possible and usual." Two famous sufferers, cited by Dr. Bond, who recovered: Robert Burns and Abraham Lincoln...