Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...About "Covering Viet Nam" [June 10]: for perspective's sake, to my quote "Any idiot can cover a war," please add, "I ought to know because I've covered four...
...convoy. In Greenwood police at first refused to let the marchers pitch their tents on school property, arresting three, including S.N.C.C. Leader Stokely Carmichael, when they tried. Most militant of all civil rights leaders, Carmichael, free on bond, shouted his anger: "We want black power! Every courthouse in Mississippi ought to be burned down to get rid of the dirt." Marchers and local Negroes picked up the chant: "Black power! Black power!" Even then, officials of Greenwood remained silent, and eventually relented on most of the marchers' demands...
...president of Hunt Foods and brother-in-law of Tycoon Norton Simon. As Frank first told it, Weisman beefed about the noise at Martin's table. "The guy was cursing me," said Sinatra, "and using four-letter words. I told him, 'I don't think you ought to be sitting there with your glasses on making that kind of conversation.' The guy got up and lunged at me. I defended myself, naturally." But then as the story heated up, Frankie sang another tune. "I at no time saw anyone hit him-and I certainly...
...said Bobby Baker, 37, bustling around his ocean-side Carousel Motel, "I'm not a candidate for anything. I've got more problems than I can say grace over." Lyndon Johnson's former protege is awfully civic-minded, though. He thinks the Federal Government, for example, ought to develop nearby Assateague Island into "a major recreation center." Baker even offered to help the locals fund the project. "I know how to get federal money," he said, "if they'll listen to me." That sounds ominous...
...ought not to be assumed, according to reliable sources, that this was a trivial occurrence. The class feeling was strong -- registering a pittsburgh on the Zultz Scale. (For reasons that are necessarily obscure the late Dr. Zuitz calibrated his machine on a Boston to-Los Angeles scale.) And October 22 was very early in the class's career at Harvard. Few classes make it past the Hudson before Thanksgiving...