Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, such Democratic victories are generally explained by the "coattails factor." But if the coattails theory is correct, then Republican Governors ought to have been driven from office in large numbers...
...bill stands now, it appears to answer the needs of the moment and ought to pass both houses handily. For once, a Senate civil rights filibuster seems unlikely. The proposal was introduced on the Senate floor last week by 64 co-sponsors-44 Democrats and 20 Republicans. To make certain that it does not get stuck in Mississippi Senator James Eastland's Judiciary Committee, the Senate voted 67 to 13 to instruct Segregationist Eastland to return the bill to the floor no later than April 9. The House hopes to vote by mid-April, and will probably produce...
...Ought to Be Thinking." As the hearings proceeded, demands for federal action intensified. Lyndon Johnson was concerned. Meeting for four hours with a delegation of 16 civil rights and religious leaders, he rejected suggestions that he send federal troops into Selma. "Everybody talks about my reluctance to use troops in Selma," he said. "And as President, I am reluctant to use the strength of the defense establishment for such a thing. When you sit in this chair, you think three times before you say 'go.' " But he also disclosed that "in the wee hours of Tuesday morning...
Then the World Champion Cards showed what they could do, choking off a bases-loaded, nobody-out rally in the ninth inning to beat the New York Mets 2-1. "We ought to be stronger than last year," said Schoendienst. Oddsmakers picked the Cardinals as no better than third choice (behind the Los Angeles Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies) to win their way into another World Series. But who cares about odds anyway? Last year on August 1 the Cards were still in sixth place...
Fresh in from Avalon, Ohio (pronounced Uh-hia), to attend a corn-fed Manhattan postal convention, Evie (Geraldine Page) coyly introduces herself: "I'm a postmaster. Suppose I ought to say postmistress, but that sounds a bit racy." Desperately folksy, she calls the bellhop "Shorty," greets the switchboard operator with: "You sound as if your name ought to be Virginia...