Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist in the U.S., the mouthpiece of Moscow's serpentine line and the brain of the party's policies here, is a man named Gerhart Eisler. So, last week, said a man who ought to know: Louis Francis Budenz, the former managing editor of the Daily Worker who forsook Communism for Catholicism (TIME, Oct. 22, 1945). It was Eisler, said Budenz, who gave him directives right from the Kremlin's mouth...
...resources of life are entrusted to man by God for the benefit of all. . . . It follows, therefore, that the right to private property is limited by moral obligations and is subject to social restrictions for the common good. Certain types of property, because of their importance to the community, ought properly to be under state or other forms of public ownership. . . . ¶ "The moral purpose of economic life is social justice. . . . The purposes of economic life, therefore, are: 1) To develop natural resources and human skills for the benefit of mankind. 2) To distribute God's gifts equitably...
Unless the S.B. tag is considered of particular usefulness to any considerable proportion of men, it ought to be dropped in favor of the single degree, indicating merely "a college graduate." Especially in such an integrated and comprehensive curriculum as is projected under the General Education plan, all melds have mixed their materials, and Philosophy has already met with Physics in forming the link between fields which once seemed poles apart...
This was something like what a Saturday morning used to be--this was more like it. We ought to win --two or three touchdowns anyway. He thought happily of the colorful crowd on its way to the game, and wondered what his date would wear. Something with red in it, he supposed. Only it wasn't red at all; it was crimson. He felt like jumping up and clicking his feet together three times in the air, as he'd seen somebody do in the movies not long ago. Vag walked rapidly through the courtyard...
Said the durable old man who had led the retreat: "I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is humiliating as hell. We ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake...