Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Third, Finer will argue that Leary ought to have the freedom to "pursue scientific truth" -- a right that has not yet been established in constitutional law, he said...
...system rests on a pair of assumptions which ought to be investigated. The old plan provided no way of telling which students had made their first choices for strong reasons and which for weak reasons--one first choice was like any other. The first assumption of the new plan is that only freshmen with strong reasons (Dean Monro calls them "substantial") for preferring a particular House will be sufficiently motivated to express his reasons in a letter to the Committee on Assignments...
...think that an Andy Warhol endorsement [Mar. 4] for our liquid helium would be a real "gasser." As the nation's largest supplier, we can keep his balloons filled for life. That ought to give him a lift...
When a German newsman seemed to imply that the buildup in Viet Nam had impaired the U.S. Seventh Army's combat capacity in West Germany, McNamara declared: "It is absolutely untrue, and you are the first that ought to know it. I'm sick and tired of having implications made that we have drawn down the forces in Western Europe when we haven't." McNamara lost his temper again when Cowles publications' Washington Correspondent Clark Mollenhoff, a longtime foe, persistently accused him of dodging questions about an adverse report by the Preparedness Subcommittee that the Pentagon...
...more efficient subsidiary in Hamilton, Ontario. In its U.S. operation, the company needed to sell 115,000 cars a year to break even, was falling short of the mark. In Canada, with lower production costs, the make-money sales point was 20,000 cars a year, which ought to have been attainable. But it wasn't. Last week Studebaker announced that it was shutting down its Canadian motorcar assembly lines and would no longer make any cars...