Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian UNO delegates have been saying in private that anyone who thinks Russia can find the time oj energy to attack Turkey, move into the Middle East, or farther expand in eastern Europe ought to know more about the great problems and troubles Russia has on her hands at home. They then explain, sounding as if they were quoting President Mikhail Kalinin's speech (TIME, Nov. 19) to Communist Party organizers on how to meet the unrest rising from the relative luxury the Red Army saw in eastern Europe...
...thank God for Great Britain." Her advice to occupation authorities: "I would send a Salvation Army to Europe with Bibles. ..." Lady Astor on the sexes: "Women have more moral courage than men. . . . We didn't make this world." On the future of the male: "I think you ought to have a rest, really...
Snorted Baltimore's bellicose H. L. Mencken (The American Language): "I think they ought to charge us for it, but all to the Bostonians. They are the only ones who speak the English language in America. The rest of us speak American...
...parties approved, with a wait-and-see attitude, the Government bill of rights, promising civil liberties, release of political prisoners, legal standing for all parties, and local self-government. They agreed that the future constitution ought to have a legislature and cabinet combining the U.S. and British systems. They took a stand in principle against party armies: the future Chinese Army, an amalgam of Government and Communist forces, should be placed under a non-political Ministry of Defense...
Frida Laski, wife of arch-Socialist Harold, agreed with people who thought he ought to be out of the Labor Party chairmanship. Said she: "It's about time we had a happy home life free from politics." But she wanted him at least to run for re-election to the executive committee at next spring's Party Congress, for if he didn't "then Lord Beaverbrook would be very happy, and I don't want that to happen...