Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...housed families capable of increasing their income in the future. In general, the formula would call for such families to pay 20% of their income for housing-and the Government would make up any necessary difference. Critics might wonder if an $8,000-a-year family really ought to be on a dole, but the President insisted that this section might "prove the most effective instrument of our new housing policy...
Homicide is only one of Kirby's quirks. Upstairs he conducts choir practice for a collection of speak-your-weight machines, reasoning that machines that talk ought to be able to sing a cappella. He also dotes on Pavlovian dogs, and his reflexes are conditioned accordingly. "Now he has to have a little ping every time he sets down to a meal," his mother complains, pinging...
Next year, the team ought to be better than ever as only one senior, Ned Cabot, is graduating...
...think that the churches have the responsibility, not to say the right, to employ the Gospel as a critique as well as a bulwark of American society. The very fact that the council is under attack is fairly good evidence that it is seeking to fulfill the role it ought to play in American society." The council proposes, in any case, to amplify the role. The General Board last week gave its approval to a number of new programs, including a pilot citizenship education project in Cleveland aimed at helping Negroes gain political power...
Divine Imperative. Joseph Fletcher of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge thought that no sexual relationship should be absolutely condemned by the church, which at the least ought to be less scandalized about teen-age promiscuity in urban slums. The new morality, he said, would certainly approve of an Episcopal priest in New York who provides contraceptives for a gang of delinquents he attempts to serve...