Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even when Barry Goldwater, one of the treaty's principal opponents, rose to speak, there were just three Senators present-all Democrats ready to pounce on him. Barry soon gave them a chance. Reiterating his stand that the U.S. ought to demand the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Cuba as its price for the treaty, he admitted that even if the Russians complied he would still vote against it. How come, asked one Democrat, when he had said only the week before that such a rider would make the treaty "perfectly acceptable even to its harshest critics"? Well, Barry...
That is no longer true. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy conceived an ideal of what the White House ought to be and translated her vision into reality. She has redecorated the public rooms in authentic period styles and arranged in them a treasure of newly acquired paintings and sculptures by U.S. artists. She has made the White House a repository of history preserved in art (see color...
...Polly Bergen, Janis Paige and other patients down in the group-therapy room. It is a pretty good show, too, what with Janis, as a nymphomaniac, showing a comic flair in her gag lines -some of which might have been pretty funny in some other movie. "They ought to stick you in the men's ward," a fellow patient says to Janis. "That's the best offer I've had in three months," she replies...
...ratification debate on nuclear weaponry and strategy, the opponents of the treaty are trying to compete in a market where the Administration holds a near monopoly; most of the proponents appear to have sold out already and the unannounced are, in effect, supporting the idea that military opinion ought to determine the vote on the treaty...
...much more is ever to grow from this first treaty, then the country must know what its own values are and what risks it would take with certain of them to secure others of them. The Senate ought to begin the Great Debate now, but it probably will...