Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maybe there ought to be a political campaigner's uniform," mused the Christian Science Monitor last week, "with helmet, face guard and sundry bulges to make the contender look handsomely fearsome. Americans like their games rugged, hit and rah style." Even so, the sight of the U.S. President, out stumping the country on behalf of lesser Democrats, stirred the Monitor to uneasiness: "National policy takes a little explaining these days. It's not just a matter of hurling slogans. Are we playing the right game...
...noisy, clawing desperation. Martha is drunk, vituperative-she brays "Screw you" at George at the precise moment that the door opens on her guest couple, invited in at 2 a.m. for a nightcap after a faculty party. By rights, Nick, the young biology professor, and his wife Honey ought to squirm and leave, but Honey is a remarkably opaque ninny who promptly proceeds to get throwing-up drunk on brandy, and Nick proves to be made of sneakily ambitious stuff that will not permit him to turn his back on a hostess who happens also to be the daughter...
...Barrington Moore is speaking. He has warmed up the freshman, who hiss vigorously. Moore tells them that if they can't do anything except sound like geese they ought to leave. They hiss again, and stay. The rest of the audience applauds, and stays too. "This situation did not arise last Tuesday; the moment was deliberately chosen," Moore declares. "All this rallying behind the President is the utter abdication of democracy." Thunderous applause. His manner is calm, almost hesitant, highly academic...
...course, student actually ought not to work any more than they must to meet college expenses. HSA, which apparently does not perceive the virtue in the philosophy, often employs students of no obvious need whatever. It is incorporated as a tax-free, charitable institution. Charity has evidently taken a new meaning...
...year-old biologist seemed nonpluseed at all the attention centered on him and confessed he was "overwhelmed" by the announcement. When asked to tell what he had done, he replied simply. "We thought DNA was important and that we ought to know its structure. Crick and I thought we could guess the structure if we went about it in the right way, and I suppose...