Word: ought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black Sunday he was in Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital, convalescing from a gall bladder operation and brooding about the campaign by high-level Republicans to dump him as a political liability. The day before, Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton had dropped a blackjack hint that Benson ought to "step down" for " the good of the party (TIME, Dec. 21). In G.O.P. inner councils there had even been discussion of the possibilities of persuading the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to call Mormon Apostle Benson back home to Salt Lake City for church duty...
...Benson-must-go Republicans worked out such a scheme four years ago, but Benson flew to Salt Lake City, convinced his fellow Apostles that he ought to stay at his post in Washington...
...must submit himself to a "didactic" or training analysis before he can qualify. And even with professional discount, the analysis comes high: average, $20 five times a week for three years. Two psychiatrists, Drs. Arnold Namrow of Washington and Jay Cohen Maxwell of Houston, argued that they ought to be able to deduct these couch costs from their taxable income as either a business expense or a medical service. Last week the U.S. Tax Court ruled against them. The training analysis, it held, is part of the curriculum for which budding analysts sign up to gain "advancement in position...
...That while the U.S. and Europe increasingly enjoy the good life, many nations outside the Communist bloc are getting more populous and relatively poorer. ¶That the U.S. should do no less about it, but that Europe should do more. ¶That someone ought to provide focus, plans, and machinery for all the scattered remedies that so far have not been extensive enough, or inspiringly imaginative, or outstandingly successful...
Minutes later, he was in the pulpit. "Responsible choice as to the number and spacing of children," he said in his sermon, "is simply one of the many areas of life in which people are called upon to make conscientious decisions under God." If a couple "ought to be having a child," any method of birth control-including abstinence from intercourse-is sinful. But if they should not be having a child-for economic, psychological or physical reasons-they are under obligation to use the most effective methods to prevent it. "We are not permitted to use a chancy method...