Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brown-eyed Betty Sanders of Brooklyn sang The Mighty Atom Bomb ("Hear the squawking friends of Hearst, they think we ought to use it first"); Lee Hays, son of an Arkansas preacher, told of his Rankin Tree ("It poisoned my potatoes, it poisoned my squash . . ."), and a pretty young union maiden named Eleanor Young did a slightly bawdy ballad about Mary Lee of the Bourgeoisie ("I've married Joe of the C.I.O."). Other topics: the Western Union strike, Churchill and Franco, housing ("I spend my days in Central Park and my nights on the I.R.T...
...brief tailpiece in which he discusses world history from Versailles to San Francisco, poses the somber question of whether we are in for another war. His half-hopeful, half-baffled, wholly unstartling conclusion: no, if the U.S. and Russia can agree. He thinks they may, and should: it ought to be possible "for two views of society to share the same world...
...Students should be encouraged to become excited about science courses; a touch of showmanship should be used; and faculties ought to be staffed with inspiring teachers. Perhaps the Faculty could take a hint from the vast crop of Science Fiction, which doesn't seem to be as far off the track as we once suspected...
...President remarked approvingly that few people seem to recognize him during his strolls (none of the dozen who had passed had turned to stare). After almost a year as President, the President was still surprised at the clamor produced by his public appearances; he thought that even a President ought to have a little privacy...
...remained incomprehensible. "I have knew mens," said Berenice, "to fall in love with girls so ugly that you wonder if their eyes is straight. . . . I have knew womens to love veritable Satans and thank Jesus when they put their split hooves over the threshold." Nevertheless, Berenice decided: "What you ought to begin thinking about is a beau. . . . A nice little white boy beau." "What would I do with one?" demanded F. Jasmine. "Do, Foolish? Why, make him treat you to the picture show. For one thing...