Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cooney Weiland, coach of top-ranked Harvard, said, "Tonight ought to be a big test to see how we look as a hockey team." He was sorry that Harvard had to play such an important game so early in the season...
...great university, however, ought to do better than insinuate. For the past two years, Harvard has created an issue, and despite student protests and outside criticism, it has intentionally allowed the issue to remain unclear. Much worse, it has allowed the press to guide public opinion into the unhealthy assumption "that Harvard's action was a protest against "professionalism" in the Western league...
Despite its obvious drawbacks. Tamburlaine merits far fuller audiences that last night's. The play's success, and it is no mean success, ought to silence a few of the self-appointed Jeremiahs around here for quite some time...
...tenor of the talk was clear. Coming to the White House, Adenauer had only vague ideas about what subjects could be negotiated with the Russians, but some very firm thoughts about what ought not to be discussed with them: recognition of East Germany, confirmation of the Oder-Neisse line as the boundary between Poland and Germany, establishment of Central Europe as a neutral zone. To the old man's delight, Kennedy agreed to keep such issues out of any discussion on Berlin-although they might be considered in future talks on some larger issue, such as reunification of Germany...
...drove 150 miles to avoid even the outskirts. The Parisians didn't like me, and I didn't like the Parisians. Then I discovered the Parisians hate everybody, including each other. All the nice people you meet in Paris want to kill themselves, and the rest ought...