Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accomplishment, no one is satisfied. Neither the new generation nor the parents, nor the academicians for that matter, can quite grasp the totality of the revolution in U.S. education. The sheer numbers alone stun them. The task of deciding what a good education should be, and what ought to be taught, and when and to whom it ought to be taught-to say nothing of how education should be financed-poses tremendous problems and precipitates endless debate...
...college football team that scores 48 points in a game ought to win. And down through the years, every team had-until Pittsburgh scored 48 two weeks ago against West Virginia. The game, as it turned out, wasn't even close: West Virginia...
...have been flatly told not to increase their foreign loans by more than 5%, and they have kept within that limit; last week, at the annual meeting of the American Bankers Association in Chicago, many bankers complained that too much pressure was being put on them and that more ought to be applied to business. The Administration now intends to harden Connor's program, may well put through more explicit though still "voluntary" limits on overseas investment and require that companies report precisely on each planned move abroad...
...perfect thing for kids whose parents go to the game, but who aren't interested in the game themselves," said one girl. "They ought to give them crossword puzzles or something...
Katzenbach praised the committment and concern of students protesting what he called "deadening conformity," but he suggested that student rebels often "dissipate the insight and the energy which ought better to be devoted to opposing" specific wrongs and problems...