Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North Atlantic is chock-full of weather and crisscrossed by weather-sensitive airplanes, but islands for weathermen to perch on are few and far between. Last week, in London, the PICAO (Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization) decided to station 13 weather ships at places where islands ought to be. During the war, the U.S. and Britain kept 20 weather ships in operation. Now these have dwindled to four...
...even remotely correct, will be focused on 188-pound plle-driver Charlie Fortin, who operates pretty effectively from the right halfback slot. The lanky southpaw, who passes and boots as well as he runs, gained a total of over 80 yards against Brown, in 1943, which is, or ought to be, some sort or record. His all-round talents spearheaded the Tufts offensives...
...little River Skell. The 814-year-old abbey (desecrated by order of Henry VIII) is England's noblest monastic ruin. Yet it was not its ruinous beauty that most moved Elwes, but his sudden realization of the vivid religious life which once had flourished there. "Beauty," says he, "ought to live. Ruins, as ruins, always make me want to vomit. It seemed to me then that the stones of Fountains were bleeding...
...crown colony. But to Guatemalans British Honduras is important as an outlet for the jungle riches of Peten. Besides, the Guatemalans have a good juridical case for claiming the colony, and the whole business has now become a matter of national pride. Said one British official: "We bloody well ought to let them have it; it would serve them right." That might be the official view, but if it came to a vote most Beliceños would probably stay British...
...Chicago art dealer who first showed Frenchman Paul Chabas' September Morn (in 1913) was arrested. According to Police Sergeant Jeremiah O'Connor, the chilly nude in wading was "indacent and ought to be in the Art Institute." Instead, it wound up on calendars and candy boxes...