Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ought to say, too, that this same hurried quality hurts Mr. White's exhaustive treatment of civil rights in 1964. He brushes off the Freedom Democratic Party's stubbornness in Atlantic City as of no consequence, as a repudiation of "the triumph that morality had wrong for them out of the laws of the Convention. "This seems a hasty write-off for what may go down as the first effort to take Negroes out of the major parties in the South, to make them a political force independent of Republican or Democratic organizations...
...Adams was worried about this future, he also had great hopes and greater ambition. "What are the Motives, that ought to urge me to hard study?" he asked himself in one entry...
Your connections and Education are too respectable for me to entertain any objections to them. Your Profession is that for which I have the highest Respect and Veneration. The Testimonies I have received of your personal Character and Conduct are such as ought to remove all Scruples upon that head...
...Tufts Summer Players performance of The Rehearsal ought to convince everyone that the situation isn't helper by reversing the accents. Director Donald Mullin and translator Lucienne Hill have joined in a peculiar kind of conspiracy to conceal from their audience that this is a very witty play. And without the humor, The Rehearsal isn't strong enough to make...
What's New Pussycat? is a comedy built on so many shaky assumptions that it ought to sue for nonsupport. It seems logical to anticipate fun aplenty when a cordon of first-rate talents gather to make the fur fly, but on this mournful occasion all hands appear joined in a conspiracy to leave Pussycat out in the rain...