Word: ought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crisis-a proper topic for campaign debate? President Eisenhower, even though he agreed with G.O.P. leaders at the White House a fortnight before that foreign policy is one of the campaign's two top issues (the other: the economy), said flatly one day last week that "Foreign policy ought to be kept out of partisan debate...
...President said Yes, the Vice-President said No, and the Secretary of State equivocated righteously. "Foreign policy ought to be kept out of partisan debate," declared Dwight Eisenhower last week. He said that he "deplored" the exchange of criticism and reply on official actions; that when he himself is accused he does not expect to answer; and that America's interests will be best served "if we do not indulge in this kind of thing." Richard Nixon called this "an unsound idea" ("one of the reasons the Republican party is in trouble today") and insisted on the opposite policy. John...
...worship as he pleases, whether he be right or wrong, and in the majority or a minority, so long as others have the same right. The resulting interplay can create still better views. This principle allows every faith to flourish for whatever it is worth; and no faith ought to swallow or seem to threaten to swallow the public hand that has sheltered...
...Commissioner's order is unconstitutional, everyone ought to oppose and resist it and hope that the Commissioner, or someone in authority, will countermand the order at once. William S. Taylor, Department of Psychology, Smith College...
Some kindly psychiatrist ought to hand Faubus a broom and start him sweeping back the ocean as the tide rises...