Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That's quite a load," he sighed, "when a car weighing 1,450 Ibs. is sitting on your head. But it didn't stay there long." Said Dan Gurney in disgust: "It seems like 33 of what are supposed to be the best drivers in the world ought to be able to drive down a little straightaway piece of road without running into each other. Everybody has a brake and an accelerator. If one of these drivers had a brain too, this wouldn't have happened...
...threat of indefinite Red Chinese intransigence and of fresh guerrilla wars. While a few Americans, particularly on the left, are urging the U.S. to pull out of Viet Nam, others, including Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and 15 of his colleagues, suggest that U.S. ground forces in Europe ought to be cut substantially...
...will have to make do with NATO as best as it can, but it certainly can strengthen what is left of it. It ought to untangle the twisted chains of command, solidify the bifurcated military and political committees and modernize the World War II-style deployment of its forces. Some experts believe that, in the long run, NATO may come to resemble the structure of the Holy Roman Empire, rich in form and legal ties but sparse in substance. Henry Kissinger of Harvard's Center for International Affairs reflects the views of many Americans when he says...
ITEM: Millard Lampell, who got an award for scriptwriting, stated: "I think everybody ought to know that I was blacklisted for ten years." Response was positive, applause lasted over ten seconds. Let Personnel search files, find the blacklist I compiled in 1955, hire any three writers on it, then instruct Public Relations to leak story to the newspapers, playing up liberalizing of network, integrity...
...policy toward the Republic has been based largely on fear and stupidity. The few exceptions offer little hope for the future. President Kennedy gave the first Bosch government great financial and moral support; but many Dominicans who ought to know insist that the CIA and the American military attaches were simultaneously encouraging Dominican generals to upset the Bosch government. The CIA and the attaches easily outdid the American president in this tussle, and there was indeed a coup...