Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capitalist enemy's determination to the point where Moscow feels it is safe to resume tougher tactics. This would certainly fit in with the views of those in the West who continue to argue that if Russia was reasonable enough to give up its Cuban bases, the U.S. ought to give up some of its own bases. A first sign of the line came at a Bonn reception last week when Soviet Ambassador Andrei Smirnov planted his tall, bearlike figure solidly before one of West Germany's top diplomats, Franz Krapf, head of the Foreign Office...
...THERE ought to be a very good reason for assembling two volumes of essays, mostly book reviews, that have appeared before over a decade or so only as isolated pieces. Raisons d'etre for a few dozen pieces don't necessarily add up to the right one for a 650-page work. Most of the articles in James Newman's new collection make interesting reading; some could stand very well on their own; a few seem to belong neither in Science and Sensibility nor in Scientific American. Taken together, they titillate without really satisfying...
...they meet by appointment in a Rockefeller Center restaurant, he sloshes through double Scotches and she sips tea. But he is a wounded animal and she is a shattered teacup. His wife and her doctor-husband are having an affair, and Caesario and Pamela feel rather wistfully that they ought to do something about...
...eliminate the danger of nuclear war, both sides ought to pledge not to use nuclear weapons in response to a conventional elimination of the "deadly peril" posed by overseas intermediate range missile bases, and said that the Russian people were threatened by our bases in Turkey in the same way that Americans been threatened by Soviet missiles in Cuba...
...know what Lloyd's going rates are, but Paul Ford ought to insure his stomach for about twice as much as Marlene has coming to her if her legs get scratched. Ford has the most eloquent pot in show business, and it'd help me unwind a whole lot quicker in the evenings if I knew that his abdomen was in good hands. I mean, this guy has a Method stomach. All he has to do is stand up and you know that he's playing to perfection a crabby, self-dramatizing, infinitely egotistical (and very funny) petty tyrant...