Word: ought
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Some provisions should be made for admitting a reasonable number of applicants as late as February of the sophomore year. If the program cannot be expanded, spaces ought to be left open through the Fall term. The doors now close firmly after the first few weeks of the semester. The result would be more satisfactory if the requirements were tightened earlier and the late applicants, or those whose qualifications seemed questionable, were directed to come back at midyears. By allowing itself to consider for admission these candidates who have decided they wish to enter History and Lit after some experience...
...Boston," she said, "have given their answer to the de facto segregation question." There can be no doubt about what her statement means: de facto segregation and its attendant evils will continue to exists in Boston schools. Students in Negro schools will receive a poorer education than they ought to, because Boston voters gave Mrs. Hicks and her cohorts such large numbers of votes...
...undeservedly narrow margin. He will again be the only member of the Committee willing to concede the existence of de facto segregation. If Gartland continues working to make transfer policies more liberal and to improve the quality of education in the predominantly Negro schools in Boston, he ought to receive better treatment from the city's voters in 1965 than he did last week...
Either they had forgotten or been detained (which ought to strike even Julie as implausible) or they had been plain-lying, and then why would they lie? If she were lazy or frightened enough, she just might accept the first explanation, hollow as it would sound. She might avoid the real problem (why did they lie?) as lesser people than she avoid so much by not seeing the Negro. And she might avoid it indefinitely if whatever she were running from in the North were sufficiently terrible, end up lying blatantly to herself and only step up the volume...
Thompson finds the law particularly repressive to Washington politicians, who ought to be able to urge their opponents to "go fly a kite" without being punished for soliciting the commission of a crime. And "what student of political science," asked Thompson in a speech on the floor of the House, "does not know the value of the trial balloon as an instrument of government? Are we now to label all our Chief Executives (not to mention aspirants to that great office) common criminals when they send aloft the name of a prospective Cabinet appointee...