Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind with the Tennessee Valley Authority. "It is not beyond human resourcefulness to find a form of joint control which will make it possible to develop the industrial potential of western Germany in the interest of the economic life of Western Europe." And in this enterprise, "we Americans ought to be able to give them precious assistance...
...crashes. Etched into the public's mind last week were pictures of crumpled wreckage and gobbeted bodies that were far more vivid than any statistics. In Congress, South Carolina's Representative L. Mendel Rivers cried: "There's something wrong with the whole doggone setup and something ought to be done about...
...hard, today, to get even a reasonably fair-minded article. I should like, for instance, to know whether or not there is truth in the reports that during the war the control of American industry has become more concentrated than before. This is the sort of thing that we ought to know about. But I feel in my bones that most of the journalists who might be competent to deal with it would regard themselves as bound by conscience to make the picture either as black or as white as possible: either to show that those glorious creatures, our industrial...
...definiteness by indoctrination from the top of a totalitarian government, but we owe it to our fellow citizens and to our convictions to use our free method of education to accomplish a result which can match the well-though-dictatorially-formulated opposition. If we really have the truth, we ought to be able to express...
...They're a tough, big, powerful team," says Coach Moo Berg, "but they play the same style of ball that we do, which ought to make it a good game...