Word: ought
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Scotland's Jimmy Clark, 28, is everything a world champion auto racer ought to be: bright, cool, daring, earnest, fearless-and lucky as a field full of four-leaf clovers. Last week he won the 280-mile Belgian Grand Prix to make it two out of three races so far this year. And he didn't even realize what he was doing...
Construction in the U.S. is humming at a record $67 billion-a-year rate, and that ought to make everyone close to the building business happy. But it doesn't. There is open concern- expressed by Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. and chief Presidential Economist Walter Heller, among others- that the long postwar building boom may be coming to a pause. In the past two years, builders have put up twice as many apartments as they did the previous two years, and there has also been a marked rise in the number of office buildings, motels...
...suggests that the President ought to legalize things by presenting himself to a bishop for confirmation...
...laymen have not been convinced of the court's wisdom to the degree that clergymen are. The Rev. Shrum Burton, president of the Kansas City Council of Churches, explains that "some laymen have a vague feeling that we are losing all religion in public life and that something ought to be done, but they don't know what." At the recent Methodist General Conference, a resolution approving the prayer rulings was tabled by a vote of 341 to 339. Many school districts have not yet complied with the court decisions, and there are plenty of public schools where...
...sacrifice of 5th century Chinese maidens. Occasionally they take time out to paint one another white, or to elude a Sanitation Department truck propelled by murderous impulses. With all its freewheeling eclecticism and formless exuberance, The Troublemaker is finally just funny enough to leave an audience feeling it ought to have been a whole lot better...