Word: ought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...followed that the Fund ought to be promoting a "Tactical Manual for Beleaguered Professors," which outlined whatever was known about preserving your job while under fire, or perhaps that Robert Hutchins ought to organize an employment agency for purge victims and send defense funds to those in danger...
Wisdom (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). Home from four years as U.S. High Commissioner and Ambassador to Germany, Dr. James B. Conant has some shrewd observations on what is different and what ought to be different between the U.S. and European school systems...
...Some kind of formal student-faculty collaboration, on the same committee or on parallel committees ought to be worked out," claimed Washburn, former member of the executive board of the Harvard Dramatic Club...
...Well, look here, little man, Goddamit, I am your Goddam roommate," I pointed out, rather cogently I thought. "I live here too. And you ought to get out of this habit of getting up promptly at the crack of noon. It's bad for your health...
...Senator Margaret Chase Smith, herself a reserve lieutenant colonel with an administrative assistant hopeful of a star-sized Pentagon mobilization assignment, sounded off on War Hero Stewart's skimpy training record. Promising nothing, Colonel Smith still seemed a trifle dubious: "I don't think reserve promotions ought to be taken lightly as they sometimes are." But this time, the Air Force, convinced that Jimmy's training file was fat enough, resubmitted his name on a list with at least one name likely to escape senatorial veto: Arizona's jet-jockeying Republican Senator Barry Goldwater...