Word: ought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unexpected boost from the six-man Tariff Commission itself. Louisiana's Representative Hale Boggs, one of Capitol Hill's most ardent freer-traders, asked the commission members, seated together below the Ways and Means Committee's walnut dais, whether they thought their escape-clause recommendations ought to be final. Commission Chairman Edgar B. Brossard mugwumped, but the other five members all said no. Commented Boggs: for Congress to pass the Simpson proposal in the teeth of the Tariff Commissioners' own testimony would be "utterly ridiculous...
...archbishop opposed artificial insemination. Rightly so. He also firmly supported the view that homosexuality was immoral and ought to be eradicated. Considering the medical support for the Wolfenden recommendations, is it not possible that here, as in the case of nuclear warfare, scientists have opened doors with no regard for the reasons that impel caution...
...must say that I thought that was an inelegant metaphor. I should never have thought of using it myself. I am not quite certain what the test is to be. In pig breeding, it is length and leanness. If we are to make the [tests] on biological grounds, we ought to have the members of another place [the Commons' phrase for the House of Lords] paraded before us, so that we can examine them...
...last decade Rouault's canvases grew brighter, with a new profusion of yellows and greens, as though heaven's trumpets could sound joy as well as fearful contrition. "I have spent my life painting twilights," he said. "I ought to have the right now to paint the dawn." Last week, at his home in Paris, Georges Rouault, 86, died of uremia. During the last six months he had painted hardly at all. Said his daughter Isabelle: "He remained silent, absorbed before the unfinished canvases on the walls of his studio, as though he were seeking a final contact...
...firing of General Douglas MacArthur, who considered himself "the proconsul in Asia": "It's too bad that the general didn't have a good political adviser. If he'd have consulted me about what he ought to do, I would have made it much easier for him, and he'd be a much more popular man than he is today...