Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...task ought not to be taxing, since under his mother's rule, which began just after World War I, Luxembourg came to enjoy the highest standard of living in Europe. There is no unemployment in the duchy's 999 sq. mi., industry is booming, and $70 million in U.S. investments has gone into Luxembourg in the past decade. Grand Duke Jean and his wife, sister of Belgium's King Baudouin, should have plenty of time for their favorite sports-skiing, swimming and golfing...
...still almost inconceivable that a large group of intelligent Republican delegates would meet at San Francisco and overwhelmingly nominate a weird and controversial character. There ought to be, there must be, a better way of selecting candidates for national office...
Spitting Match. Before Republican moderates undertake the bruising task of kicking Goldwaterites out of the party, they ought to reach some consensus on where they themselves stand. In the days immediately following the election, such a consensus was obviously lacking. One result was an unseemly longdistance spitting match between former Vice President Richard Nixon and New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller. In Manhattan, Nixon held a press conference, called for party unity and a moratorium on intraparty "backbiting," then lashed out at Rocky for having given...
That was Rosy's way of suggesting that his opponent, Republican State Representative Daniel Jackson Evans, 39, was a nobody and ought to remain exactly that. But on the morning after the election, it turned out that enough people had known who Evans was to enable him to beat the daylights out of Governor Rosellini in a state that went overwhelmingly Democratic in every other...
...much to his embarrassment). But in the 1930s, he became a militant Communist, began cranking out "social realism" clinkers that glorified the Russian regime. His reasons are unconvincing: "I came to realize that a soldier's fate is not that of a dreamer, and that one ought to take one's place in the fighting ranks. I did not renounce what I held dear, nor did I repudiate anything, but I knew that I would have to grit my teeth and master that most difficult of disciplines-silence." Roar of Cannon. Master...