Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...card, my husband gave me a sink garbage disposer." The system would have forestalled the contretemps of O'Henry's young husband and wife in his celebrated story of mismatched sacrifice, The Gift of the Magi. But if the art of giving is to survive, there ought to be room for such mistakes-and such sentimentalists...
...Whenever we need women, I think we ought to draft them," declared General Lewis Hershey, 73, head of the nation's Selective Service System. "There's a real nurse shortage in the armed forces." Will the girls be getting Greetings? Not for the present, Hershey quickly assured a reporter for the University of Michigan's daily newspaper. At a national conference on the draft in Chicago, Anthropologist Margaret Mead, 65, supported Hershey's idea of coed conscription to make national service truly equal and universal. She drew the line, though, at letting the ladies be battleaxes...
...both the shape and function of the jaws that the dental surgeon should do his utmost to help them achieve their normal position. Only if that is impossible should canines be extracted. Even when an impacted tooth is clearly infected, there is still disagreement as to when it ought to come out. Should the dentist wait for the infection to be healed by antibiotics? Dr. Salman's conclusion: Every case must be decided individually...
...position and movement of the troughs are significant, says Krown, because they are associated with the streams of cold air that suddenly spill down from the Arctic every October, bringing clouds and rain to herald the change of seasons. "If I am finally proved right," he says, "there ought to be similar findings at similar latitudes." The latitudes he is talking about are between 30° and 50° north of the equator, which includes the southern part of the U.S., where both agriculture and business could benefit from more accurate long-range weather forecasting...
...freshman, considerations such as whether he knew what he was doing are often taken into account. A great deal depends on whether the plagiarism was intentional and the length of the plagiarized passage. But Weinberg insists that this is the area in which the Ad Board ought to be particularly tough--"intellectual honesty should be one of the strictest rules of the University," he said...