Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever I should have a biographer," he said later, "he ought to make great mention of this chamber in my memoirs, because so much of my lonely youth was wasted here, and here my mind and character were formed." But he never said exactly what, except for his reading & writing, went on there, and no one else seems to know in detail. It is certain that he was disappointed when editors and publishers showed little interest in his work, but even disappointed authors do not usually bury themselves for years to pore over colonial history and consider the effects...
...There's this night differential pay raise of 10? an hour we're asking. Night work's tricky in the yards. Maybe your lantern goes out. Maybe you miss a moving step in the dark. We ought to get more money for that...
...before it-Iran and Spain. Both cases turned on the extent to which the Council could act on the "internal affairs" of nations. The Russians thought the Council could go as far as it liked on Spain; the U.S. and Britain thought not. The Western powers thought the Council ought to know what was going on in Iran; Moscow couldn...
Lanny journeys to the West Coast, where Louella Parsons, floored by his dash and balderdash, gasps: "Somebody ought to give him a screen test." Hearst begs him to accept $50,000 a year for some random reportage. He has another bedside chat with the President (Lanny edits one of F.D.R.'s speeches, in which he invents and inserts the phrase "arsenal of democracy"), and is off to see Adolf Hitler chew a rug. Göring smuggle a swallow of dope, and "Rudi" Hess resolve to fly to England...
...government to say "Thou shalt not strike" to workers in a private industry operated for private gain even though that industry be the railroads. Trainmen and engineers considered their grievances so serious that they were willing to strike. Their judgement is open to question, but by what right ought they be forbidden to strike...