Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being used as well as I was used in the commercial theater. I have invested an enormous amount of time, money and energy to become a versatile actor. I can speak the king's English or any dialect. I can sing and dance and move the way an actor ought to move on stage. So why should I play just special types...
Americans who speak loudly of democracy, justice, and the right of self-determination ought to fell ashamed not to say ridiculous, to behold the spectacle of the Nation's Capital, where...
...salesmen leave their jobs just because the boss does not take their advice on company policy, but Bernard Cornfeld is no ordinary salesman. Nine years ago, he told his bosses at Manhattan's Investors Planning Corp., a mutual-fund sales firm, that they ought to expand overseas. The bosses said no; Cornfeld quit. He went overseas himself, set up a company that began by selling mutual-fund shares to G.I.s, has since become the largest mutual-fund sales organization outside the U.S. Last week Cornfeld closed a nostalgic deal to get back into the U.S. mutual-fund field...
...cynicism by any means. After all, such Radical Republicans as Pennsylvania's Representative Thaddeus Stevens and Massachusetts' Senator Charles Sumner were the same ones who had been passionate prewar abolitionists. To suppose that they lost their ideals at Appomattox, writes Stampp, is absurd. "In fact, Radical Reconstruction ought to be viewed in part as the last great crusade of the 19th century romantic reformers." Other historians might boggle at calling the spiteful Stevens a romantic...
...could raise a minimum of $120,000--a sum which, turned to the proper channels, could inform and educate hundreds of thousands of people. The fact that these people would rather take a Saturday bus ride to Washington--often with their dates, and march about with signs all day, ought to elicit more pity tha scorn from all those really interested in a better solution to the current war in Vietnam. Laurence O. McKlnney...