Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mother Britain a wonderful surprise last week. Australia's Labor Parliament approved an outright gift of 25,000,000 Australian pounds ($80,250,000) to the United Kingdom. Next day small sister New Zealand announced a gift of 12,500,000 New Zealand pounds.* Both girls felt they ought to help Mother in her financial pinch; and besides, they owed a lot to her for help...
Chileans faced a poser. As possessors of Latin America's only South Seas colony, ought they not ask for membership in the new U.N. Trusteeship Council...
...clothes-leather, or guttapercha, or whatever else lasts longest-so that his great-grandchildren should have the benefit of them, and cut precisely the same figure in the world that he himself does. ... I doubt whether even our public edifices-our capitols, statehouses, courthouses, city-hall and churches-ought to be built of such permanent materials as stone or brick. It were better that they should crumble to ruin once in twenty years . . . as a hint to the people to ... reform the institutions which they symbolize...
...back bench, Knowland waited respectfully until Taft had finished. Then he rose and very firmly pointed out that at the rate of $1 billion a year it would take 259 years to wipe out the debt.* He thought the Senators ought to do it faster than that. He was calm: before the session, he had taken the precaution of lining up maverick Republicans on his side. He also knew Democrats would be with him, if only to embarrass Taft. A trifle grimly, Colorado's Eugene Millikin suggested a $2 billion tax payment as a compromise. Taft retreated...
...reckoned without Knowland's determination. Disarmingly, Knowland argued that the Senate ought to be willing to reduce the debt by 1%-or $2.6 billion...