Word: ought
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...liberal schisms in both houses to the point where Johnson could lose valuable support on other more important bills. Though repeal of the clause was demanded in the 1960 and 1964 Democratic platforms, there seems little likelihood the President will risk a fight for it now. Says Mansfield: "We ought to have the legislation, but I am doubtful that we will get it this year." Johnson also wants to expand the federal minimum wage ($1.25 an hour) to cover another 2,000,000 people-mostly hotel, restaurant and laundry workers. That measure has a far better chance...
...short, ruled Kenison, the Hambergers do have a right to have their case heard in New Hampshire. "If the peeping Tom, the big ear and the electronic eavesdropper (whether ingenious or ingenuous) have a place in the hierarchy of social values, it ought not to be at the expense of a married couple minding their own business in the seclusion of their bedroom...
...tendency to label and dogmatize, with too many politicians preferring to be expedient rather than patient: "To grant audiences to 170 million Americans would be exhausting. So we make our divisions, our classifications and our cross-classifications, which permit us to forgo the listening and the searching we ought...
...mite embarrassing to Coach Arad McCutchan, 52. Arad is an odd name ("My great-grandfather picked it out of the Bible. It means 'a wild ass' "), and McCutchan is an odd coach. A balding, soft-spoken math teacher, he has a notion that the game ought to be played for fun. He wears flaming red socks ("for luck"), dresses the Purple Aces in bright orange road uniforms and warmup robes of yellow, red and green because "I like some color, and purple is hard to see." McCutchan limits his own recruiting to the environs of Evansville (eleven players...
With 10 games to go this season, Harrington says he is "quite pleased. They have a lot of potential and it ought to be a pretty good year...