Word: ought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign ministers-a condition once insisted upon by the U.S. but since dropped (TIME, Feb. 24). This foreign ministers' conference, Gromyko added, should handle the housekeeping details of the summit, i.e., time, place, agenda, and should be convened in April. Gromyko did not say whether the foreign ministers ought also to explore the prospects for agreement on points of substance-another U.S. condition-to find out whether a parley at the summit should be held...
...tailors along High Street. Bound in leather, handwritten on parchment and illustrated with swatches of material, their specifications are stored for the ages in the University Archives. One fiat of the new book: nylon fur is out. Sniffs Gentlemen's Tailor Venables: "Any fur on an academical hood ought to come from an indigenous animal...
...reading no book. And you can't spell Bach with a small 'b' and make Basin St. from it. Not that it ain't music or ain't good-but it's different, and some don't know it. And they tell you what jazz is and what it ought to be and I start to thinking that maybe I gone crazy or had too much to drink. But you wait for Pete, and hear what...
...full years of growth and experience, joy and hardship, that compromise is no substitute for decisiveness, that inspiration is made out of specific minute-by-minute leadership. He had also absorbed out of a long career of professional politics, precincts and patronage a healthy notion about how the presidency ought...
...First Breakthrough. At 42, Theodore Roosevelt stood at the pinnacle of the power he had long sought. He understood power; he understood the power of the nation and its parts; he understood the power that the nation had-or ought to have-in the world. But although T.R. controlled the White House, it was National Committee Chairman Hanna who controlled the G.O.P. organization, Mark Hanna who could water down or wreck T.R.'s programs in Congress, Mark Hanna who could ruin T.R.'s influence by blocking his nomination in 1904. So T.R., ruthlessly shrugging off Hanna...