Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the Barriers. Says Sister Jacqueline: "We ought to create the kind of tension that forces students to ask hard questions. Nobody's answers are any better than his questions." She believes that this statement applies equally to theology and philosophy, and once told a group of freshmen: "Unless you have questioned the existence of God by the time you are 19, you're either a liar or a fool...
...candidate" for the Republican presidential nomination in 1964. But he would certainly accept a "draft," and those who saw him during two recent speechmaking trips to Washington figured that he was already measuring himself for Jack Kennedy's rocking chair. Many Michiganders resent this; they insist that Romney ought to live up to his gubernatorial campaign promises and solve state problems before he tries to move out into national politics. Last week the Detroit News, one of Romney's strongest supporters during his 1962 campaign, gave him unshirted hell in an editorial: "Governor Romney's stature as a public servant...
...this merely obscured what ought to be the real U.S. policy: 1) an independent nuclear force for a truly united Europe; 2) full U.S. responsibility for the defense of Europe until that goal is achieved...
...some sort of handicap that would seem to prevent them from gaining a two-thirds majority. The liberal favorites-theologically minded Leo Josef Suenens, 58, of Malines-Brussels, and Vienna's courtly, diplomatic Franziskus Konig, 57-would have to overcome the tra dition that Rome's bishop ought to be Italian. Genoa's Giuseppe Siri, 57, and Palermo's Ernesto Ruffini, 75, are skilled, articulate conservatives-but their lack of aperturismo makes many non-Italian cardinals shudder...
...College, recently put it, "a soundly conceived program of General Education can become . . . the central position of the central position of strength from which the whole college--president, dean, faculty members--coming together in the name of the college,--can, quite simply do those things for its students which ought to be done, but which we know will not get done if instruction is left entirely to the departments...