Word: ought
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...find any pattern of discrimination. Moreover, he has filled trial transcripts in rights cases with gratuitous obiter dicta. At a hearing last March, he referred to a Negro voting registration drive as "grandstanding"; he repeatedly described 200 applicants as "a bunch of niggers" and called them "chimpapzees" who "ought to be in the movies rather than being registered to vote." Fit for Jail. The latest case to cast Cox as a judicial Horatio at the segregation bridge began in 1962 when two Negro witnesses told of being denied the right to register seven years before...
...Norman Mailer," a fellow in blue jeans quickly answered. "Now that the Chinese and French have achieved the ultimate weapon, we ought to switch the competition away from weaponry, as Mailer says, to orgasms. I'd follow...
...Harvard ought to beat Penn today. The Crimson is favored by 14 points in the betting odds, made up by people who know that Penn is last in the Ivy League in both offense and defense...
...seen many political parties come and go--Puritans, tea dampers, and abolitionists. Yet the current, dominant Democratic party is perhaps the strangest of them all, since it is not really a party. Despite the fact that the vast majority of all elected officials are Democrats, a condition that ought to give elections a dreary sameness, the state's politics are among the most confused and chaotic in the nation. This year's election is hardly likely to vary the pattern...
Something ought to be said about the Senator's own tactics. He has charged Kennedy with funneling 60 million federal dollars into the hands of Nazis by ending a 20-year dispute over the World War II seizure of the General Aniline & Film Corporation. He has charged Kennedy with walking out on civil rights by resigning as Attorney General when the Civil Rights Act had yet to be implemented: And, finally, he has charged that through the Valachi hearings Kennedy did an unnecessary disservice to Italian-Americans...