Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water." Said Johnson: "Any man who can believe that and write it is the kind of man who ought to become the President's leader of the fastest-growing department in this Government...
...affirmative answer to the question he recently posed in remarks to a visitor. Said he: "The Communists are pouring more men in all the time. They've suffered their greatest losses. The big question that we are faced with is whether the United States is doing what it ought...
...solve the central problem of urban change: school segregation, which has merely shifted focus from legally enforced separation to de facto segregation. Nearly every metropolitan area reports an increase in segregated schools as a result of housing patterns. For a start, proposed Pittsburgh School Superintendent Sidney Marland Jr., there ought to be a drastic redrawing of school districts in major cities and their suburbs...
...venial sifts against the language seem to amuse rather than affront him. Under ROOFTOP, he complains mildly: "What would a rooftop be, anyway? Use housetop or just plain roof." He quotes a recipe. "Now throw in two tablespoons full of chopped parsley and cook ten minutes more. The quail ought to be tender by then." Then Bernstein makes his point: "Never mind the quail, how are we ever going to get those tablespoons tender? The word is tablespoonfuls, no matter how illogical it seems...
...everyone, he demands attention and energy from all, and his presence, like that of a great brooding ogre, hangs over the stage when he is off it. Among the one-dimensional characters, Gloria Maddox's Sofya, and Bruce Kornbluth's Telyegin are well put-together too, (though someone ought to get Kornbluth a balaika and get rid of that Everly Brothers-vintage guitar he's stuck with), and Gertrude Crippen's Marina is excellent...