Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...infused the Negroes themselves with the fiber that gives their revolution its true stature. In Los Angeles recently, King finished a talk by saying: "I say good night to you by quoting the words of an old Negro slave preacher, who said, 'We ain't what we ought to be and we ain't what we want to be and we ain't what we're going to be. But thank God, we ain't what...
...vice-President could do without undercutting the authority of some Cabinet Member or agency director (in this case, the Secretary of Defense and the head of NASA). More importantly, the parties should be permitted to choose vice-Presidential candidates without considering their fitness for directing a specific program--they ought to think only of choosing a man qualified to be President...
...Lady Bird Johnson-strictly in the time she could spare from shopping, entertaining, and running a household-was able to run up the contents of her handbag into a $5,000,000 estate [Nov. 29]. Such talents ought to be applied more widely. If J.F.K. thought it not robbery to make his brother Attorney General, then by golly L.B.J. owes it to the nation to make his wife Secretary of the Treasury! We may be able to shake this national debt thing...
...survey was run by Psychologists Kenneth B. Clark (whose studies of segregation bolstered the 1954 Supreme Court school decision) and Lawrence Plotkin, who both teach at City College of New York. Their chief conclusion is that colleges ought to weigh entrance-exam scores less for Negroes because the tests "do not predict the college success of Negro students in the same way they do for whites...
...located among the pizzerias and gas stations off Detroit's Woodward Avenue. Inside, 500 paintings cover the walls and even part of the ceiling, which supine browsers can study from a large couch. The gallery, named the ARxerie, is dedicated to the uncontestable principle that every American home ought to have a real painting in that empty-looking place over the stereo set. Those who drive in are assured of finding art in every style, subject, size, color and medium, mostly bought up by the batch in Europe. Works are priced from $4 to $2,000-including frame...