Word: ought
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...majority - of - a - majority (i.e. decisions of the party caucus), approaching the British system, which became quite popular among political scientists in the late forties. Such a view raises interesting questions about what kind of a legislature is most representative (and if, indeed, representation is the only value one ought to apply in judging legislative procedures) which Bolling never bothers to discuss. His views may be defensible, but he never really defends...
...less reason to fear escalation, the greater the probability of limited conflicts. Hence the tension among allies, some of whom are mainly worried about all-out war (the U.S.) while other worry just as much about limited ones (Europe). Hence, also, vacillations among pacifists, who wonder whether they now ought to be in favor of conventional wars as a way to prevent nuclear ones, or assume that peace is based on bilateral possession of invulnerable reprisal weapons, or work for total disarmament to build peace on foundations other than fear...
Hollywood movies are all too often sitting ducks for sharpshooting critics, and one who delights in picking them off is the New York Herald Tribune's Judith Crist. The movie companies ought to be used to such sporadic bursts of fire by now, but once more they are indulging in their favorite form of retaliation: they are lifting their advertising from the offending newspaper...
Yale, whose depth doesn't begin to compare with Harvard's, should have little success in the lower positions. Crimson captain Peckham, Richie and Brian Davis ought to win at four, five, and six, respectively...
...fire men, science-fiction writers, the entire population of Rosewater County, Ind., his ancestral seat. To them, he disburses much money and all of himself. Author Vonnegut casts Rosewater as a misbegotten saint in a world that puts saints to the stake. Beyond that point lurks another: that goodness ought to have its head examined for trying to coexist with evil. In this book, his sixth, Vonnegut clearly establishes his kinship to the late Nathanael West, and Eliot Rosewater could easily pass as the reincarnation of Miss Lonelyhearts. But Vonnegut is both riper and less mature than West-and less...