Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...completing her autobiography last April, Dame Edith Sitwell was asked how she felt. "Dying, but apart from that I'm all right," she replied. A little later, she remarked that as a Roman Catholic (she became a convert in 1955), "I know I ought not to dread death, but I am so conceited that I simply cannot imagine how the world would get on without me." In London's St. Thomas Hospital last week, at 77, Edith Sitwell died of a heart attack, thus putting the world to the test...
...cynical fairy tale across the shabby landscape of the town. Through his eyes Cherbourg becomes a city of promise done up in candy-box decor, where every shopfront, boudoir and corner bistro has been daubed with gentle pastels or vibrant reds, yellows, pinks, blues. This is the way things ought to be, he wistfully suggests, not yet faded with the passing seasons into the greyness of things as they are. Hollywood has been performing such tricks for years, but rarely with so graceful a touch...
EISENHOWER: Yes. Now as I was saying, this is a difficult question, and one we all ought to study further. Why don't we say so in a press release and stop...
NIXON: The...? Oh, fine, thank you, Barry, just fine. You know, I hate to be the first to get down to business, as it were, but I think we ought to get started on this topic of unity. As I see it, Barry and I differ not as a matter of ends, but of means. It's my opinion, and I mean this sincerely, that I have great respect for you, Barry. And I want to add that Pat does too. It's my feeling too, that the party should not be led by extremists of the right...
According to Howe, "Civil rights is perhaps the central problem of morality in our country at this time. The University ought to have a course specifically devoted to this topic...