Word: ought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deplore the possibility of putting the Government into this field, either as a party in negotiations and certainly in establishing laws to fix the levels of profits and of wages and prices [but] I would again insist that the whole 175 million of us ought to make clear that we are concerned about this matter, and this is not something where we are standing aside and seeing ourselves hurt...
...what am I supposed to do about it?" objected David Egger. "If I don't think that way, who is going to look out for me? Go into politics? No, our politics are a dirty business. Of course, I ought now to really start thinking about a job. It I don't, who is going to feed...
While Croman believed that "this is just the direction the Council ought to move in," other members asserted that it was more important to plan the meetings on a night when the greatest percentage of Council members could attend. The president, who has been attempting all term to promote greater House Committee interest in Council matters, indicated that his colleagues' disapproval was "a big mistake." He added, however, that he would urge the House committees to shift their meeting times so that they could discuss the Council's agenda...
...capacity. Blough said the rate of production, barring a strike, would drop "somewhat" in the third quarter but "would continue reasonably good because there's been a recovery in the economy that involves an increase in consumption by our customers." And for the fourth quarter production "ought to be better than the third." The signs point to total industry production of between no and 115 million tons this year, compared with only 85 million tons last year...
...story is simple enough. Sir Clifford Chatterley comes back from World War I paralyzed from the waist down. An upper-class snob, he stuns his wife by telling her that she ought to have a child by another man. Connie Chatterley falls in love with Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper, learns for the first time what real sex is all about. Sir Clifford, of course, is incensed at Connie's betrayal of her class. Why make love to a workingman? By this time Sir Clifford is more than half in love with his lady attendant, and the book...