Word: ought
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...that can make instant help available to all. Necessary, too, is more money and manpower for research. Far too little is known about the mass murderer because he erupts infrequently?and even less frequently survives to be examined. Psychiatrists firmly believe that Richard Speck, accused of the nurse killings, ought to be studied intensively rather than punished by society, if found guilty. Pilot studies in Massachusetts and Illinois of juvenile offenders indicate that many potential psychotics may be identifiable and curable while in their teens, and an important segment of the medical profession has not given up hope of finding...
...Mollenhoff. "You seem to dodge everything, Mr. Secretary." Exploded McNamara: "I unfortunately haven't been able to dodge all the rocks you have thrown at me for five years." Three days later McNamara was off on a Swiss skiing vacation, by presidential order. Muttered L.B.J. to aides: "He ought to know better than to tackle that s.o.b...
...Call up the editor," Charles de Gaulle instructed an aide, "and suggest that he ought to be very severe in tomorrow's editorial." Was De Gaulle demanding yet another Paris-Presse blast against U.S. foreign policy? Not that day. Having just watched the televised national rugby finals degenerate into a brawl, France's President yearned to convey his outrage to the country. He appealed to L'Équipe, the Paris-based sports daily-and got his editorial...
...barely squeak by in Wayne's roomy old boots. Cord looks bored, a reasonably sensible reaction to Ann-Margret's pastel flouncing in the painted-lady role defined for keeps by Claire Trevor. In case they don't know what they have missed, the cast ought to sit home some night and catch the real thing on the late show...
Penalized. The immediate effect will be to raise consumer prices in most Common Market countries - although, paradoxically, the underlying aim is to increase output and lower prices. Under the agreement, subsidies are supposed to encourage efficient producers and penalize less efficient producers, so that prices ought to fall in the long run. But the short-run effect is bound to be inflationary, and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville complained: "One cannot pretend that, from the economic standpoint, what we have done is entirely defensible...