Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy called in Administration officials, congressional leaders and many other types. He asked them, in effect: "What ought we to do?" In 1962 there was none of this. The President himself decided that troops should be sent to Thailand, and that the action would be more than a mere show of force. Then he told congressional leaders about...
...that way, an old Harvard type." Says another: "You could call Bundy and say, 'Hey, Mac, you ought to do this.' You can't do that with the president of the university." By contrast, another professor extols Pusey's deliberation: "I think Kennedy would be well advised if he had a man like Pusey in Washington along with Mac Bundy. Maybe the Cuban affair would not have taken place then." All this boils down to the fact that Harvard really misses a dean of arts and sciences. Pusey will doubtless soon name...
...clamped in his caramel-tan face, Musial keeps things relaxed with an endless supply of gentle practical jokes and good-humored cracks. He once told John F. Kennedy: "They tell me I'm too old to play baseball and you're too young to be President. We ought to get together." Playing for Fun. A onetime pitcher who learned to spin a southpaw curve on the sooty sidewalks of Donora, Pa., Musial could, if he chose, retire with honor and security. He has never haggled over money: when he signed the National League's first...
...They ought to put a 20-lb. weight on him, handicap him like a race horse, to give the rest of us a chance." At 32, Palmer is a hero out of Runyon -a passionate gambler, an electric showman. His desire to win is so strong that finishing second-even though it makes him rich-is only a little less distasteful than finishing last. "The desire is the thing," he says. "You have to keep yourself under control, to believe in yourself...
...April's right eye, news stories frothed at her assailant. He was "fiendish" (the Examiner), "sadistic" (the News-Call Bulletin), "probably a sexual psychopath" (the Chronicle). Swathed in bandages and an eye patch, April posed bravely for photographers and forgave her attacker: "Anyone who is like that-we ought to feel sorry for him." But having latched onto surefire excitement, San Francisco's papers were ready neither to forgive nor forget. By last week the city was in the middle of a "crime wave"-courtesy of the press...