Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that account was correct, growled Byrd. the President ought to fire Gordon forthwith.* "I submit that a man who thinks a balanced budget would be a catastrophe does not have the frame of mind to direct the budget . . . Responsible fiscal positions should be filled with sound men. If we do not get crackpot economists out of these positions, the American system will be lost...
Peterson: Say, Cheyenne tower. I think we'll make a pass over the airfield, just to get the feel of this damned thing. You had better tell us what to do with this thing. What kind of speed we ought to come...
...younger offspring. Says Parties Unlimited's Coordinator Dorothy Hochman: "We try to discourage parents from one-year-old parties, but still they have them. A mother recently wanted to 'do' her 17-month-old child's birthday. I asked if she felt she really ought to. 'I have a very sophisticated ly-month-old baby,' she said, and that was that...
...never thinks about those important things; until later, when he's too far away from the incident to beg my pardon and mean it. I would beg his pardon. That's what his fathers taught their niggers. That's the way mutually respectful, self-respecting men ought to act. But in America men just don't extend themselves to be human. It's the system again. It's why Negroes call each other "nigger," but a white man had better not. Liberals don't understand--won't understand. I'm a nigger. You know what that means...
...darling (Zamba). The great white hunter lures mama and her darling to his farm in Kenya, and for awhile mama really enjoys the back to nature bit. But when the kid falls in love with a lion, mama figures they have both gone too far back to nature, and ought to go back to the States. So she summons papa, and pretty soon all three of them go back to Connecticut. The hunter goes back to his wart hogs, and what's more he goes smiling. He seems to appreciate at last that there are boars-and bores...