Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breasts with a cigarette. Vasseur listened impassively, commenting, "It's possible" or "It's plausible." His mother blamed herself. Taking the stand, she cried: "I had a very strict mother. I wanted to spare my son. I sinned in the other direction. It is not he who ought to be on trial. It's me. It is my fault. Punish...
...feasible" reforms, Martin Luther King calls for a new U.S. law making it a federal crime to intimidate or murder any person "in pursuit of constitutional rights." He seeks Negro employment "on every level of law enforcement agencies." To "abolish lynch law from Dixie juries," he thinks federal officials ought "to select and constitute jury panels in state as well as federal cases...
...Leather Boys, made in England in 1963, offers still another slice of working-class misery, teeming with crises over teen-age marriage, lonely old age, youthful disengagement and incipient homosexuality. Though its plot ought to guarantee mediocrity, this colorful catchall of familiar problems turns out to be a prime showcase for some very splashy talent...
Nearest of all s foreign aid and she still champions its cause with the same enthusiasm she has held for years. "There ought to be far more--no doubt about it at all," she said early. "The attitude toward foreign aid now is absolutely deplorable. People get a lobster glaze in their eyes when the subject is brought...
...designing its alternatives, the group of planners said they had attempted to come up with solutions acceptable to three groups: the City, the DPW, and the federal government which will pay 90 per cent of the road's cost. When Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci suggested that the planners ought to have recommended other routes-(including one along Memorial Drive), the planners countered that these alternatives would probably not be acceptable to either the DPW or the federal government...