Word: ought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Home, Viper!" The wreath-laying over, Nixon said to his Secret Service chief: "We are going to San Marcos." Soon his white convertible neared the sweating demonstrators, whose faces twisted with hatred as they cried, "Nixon is a viper!" Nixon turned to an aide, said: "I think we ought to take it on," got out of the car. He briskly shook some outstretched hands, shouted over the angry roar: "I came to talk with you! Have your leader come out and talk...
...cent was hit on as a possible rate," Monro points out. "I don't doubt that it will change from year to year, and ought to change." Whatever changes are made, either for retaining a higher or lower standard rate, or for introducing a more flexible rate, should take into consideration the fact that some agencies have no use for the facilities offered, and therefore receive no benefits from their assessment...
...TOWN VACATIONS: "I do not believe that any individual, whether he is running General Motors or the United States of America, can do the best job by just sitting at a desk and putting his face in a bunch of papers . . . Actually [the President] ought to be trying to keep his mind free of inconsequential detail and doing his own thinking on the basic principles and factors that he believes are important, so that he can make clearer and better judgments...
Political Reasons. Indiana University's famed Nobel Prizewinning Geneticist Dr. Hermann Muller, who had signed Pauling's stop-the-tests petition of 9,235 scientists (2,749 from Communist Rumania), staked out his view that while the scientific perils of fallout have been exaggerated, tests ought to be stopped for political reasons-"desirable for the easing of tensions...
...instruction. The vocabulary taught is selected for the frequency with which words are used in conversation rather than in literature, which is the basis for most college word lists. Part of the course: a lesson in intimate and intemperate uses of language. Berlitz reasons that even a gentlemanly student ought to know that to call a Chinese a tortoise, for instance, is grounds for water torture...