Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the circus, Alice is something you can tell yourself the kids ought to see-but naturally they can't go alone...
Although most District citizens liked daylight saving during the war and want it back, most Senators come from areas prejudiced against "fast time." Nevertheless, Rhode Island's J. Howard McGrath thought the Senate ought to do "what is good and desirable for the people of the District of Columbia...
Flea-Bag Years. When the library staff put on a show, Fred was ready. He had rounded up all his jokes and jugglery into an act. "I was a smash," Fred recalls. "They all told me I ought to be on the stage. The bastards. I believed them." At 17, he broke into Sam Cohen's Amateur Night circuit-50? a night. One night a noisy M.C. heckled him: "Where did you learn to juggle?" Allen tried his first onstage ad lib: "I took a correspondence course in baggage-smashing." Soon he got a chance to fill...
...strolled back in again at the double clang of the quorum bell, while Missouri's tireless Republican Forrest Donnell droned through his exhaustive "introduction" to the bill to outlaw portal-to-portal pay suits, kept the floor for the better part of three days. Grumbled one Senator: "We ought to meet on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and let Donnell meet on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday...
...From 10 to 20% of the county's residents ought to see a psychiatrist...