Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anita Loos, literary executor of the golddigger (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), threw up her hands at the wild younger generation, came out for more parental discipline-"you ought to smack him in the puss." She considered bobby-soxers inferior to flappers. "The flappers washed their underwear," said she. "They were neat, sexy, appealing and clean. The bobby-soxers are gross . . . they are not alluring...
...Moslem-Hindu riots: The army ought "only to be used for maintaining cleanliness, cultivating unused land and the like," the police "only to catch bona fide thieves." The most effective way to stop religious fights, he suggested, "is that one of the parties to mutual slaughter should desist...
...what a beautiful spy ought never to do-she fell in love with an American junior officer. Into his understanding ears she spilled a story of frequent meetings with two Red Army officers of the Political Division, to whom she reported information about U.S. Military Government activities. The American introduced her to a U.S. Counterintelligence operative, who persuaded Käthe to turn her coat...
...system functions properly," he writes, "we ought to find the most competent men hold the positions of greatest responsibility, and that their legitimate privileges are correspondingly greater." He adds that we should improve the quality of leadership and not try to remove the privileges incident...
...making reforms, the guiding principle," Aldrich concludes, "ought to be the fostering of more competent and responsible leadership...