Word: ought
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...Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who is said to be wearying of his job and to be out of favor with President Johnson. Leading the rumor list of possible successors: White House Foreign Policy Adviser McGeorge Bundy; Defense Secretary McNamara, who once made the observation that no man ought to stay more than five years on the same job and who, by that standard, has about served his time in the Pentagon; and former Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, a Republican who has had a lot of State Department experience...
...unnecessary christening. Such unwarranted rebaptisms are clearly on the way out. Last month an Ecumenical Commission of Roman Catholic bishops and theologians, at a historic dialogue with Episcopal clergy in Washington, agreed that conditional baptism should be discouraged. If nothing else, the furor over Luci's rebaptism ought to help the word get around. By spotlighting the fact that "baptism is the one sacrament that unites all Christians," said Episcopal Dean Francis B. Sayre of the Washington Cathedral, "Luci innocently made a contribution to the ecumenical movement...
...Government ought to gradually rescind laws that require at least half of all U.S. foreign aid cargoes to be carried in U.S. bottoms. By shifting the loads to foreign fleets, Johnson says the Government could save considerable money-which it could use to bankroll the building of modern U.S. ships. > All new ships should have a high degree of automation in order to qualify for subsidy...
Theoretically, there ought now to be a considerable supply of household help. While the overall unemployment in the U.S. is low, among nonwhite girls between the ages of 16 and 21, for example, it runs as high as 28%. There is also a growing number of retired people, one of whose familiar complaints is that they have nothing to do with the balance of their lives; certain kinds of household work might provide the answer...
After graduation in 1755, he taught school and studied law, confiding his purpose to his diary in a characteristic balance of idealism, ambition and shrewd observation of his own character and human nature in general: "What are the Motives, that ought to urge me to hard study? The Desire of Fame, Fortune and personal Pleasure. A critical Knowledge of the Greek and Roman and french Poetry, History and Oratory, a thorough comprehensive knowledge of natural, civil, commercial, and Province Law, will draw upon me the Esteem and perhaps Admiration (tho possibly the Envy too) of the Judges of both Courts...