Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paraphrase the late President Kennedy, "Ask not what your country can do for your security, but what you can do for your country's sanity." The former is no longer even theoretically attainable-and that ought to be a liberating realization. The latter, God help us, may yet be salvaged, and our children's unguaranteeable future humanized...
...Franklin Roosevelt, whose presidency, as Historian Clinton Rossiter notes, was characterized by "his airy eagerness to meet the age head-on." Instead, Nixon seems to view his office much as Cleveland did, and will probably work to push the country in the direction that he thinks it ought to go-with his foot poised between the brake and the accelerator...
...confided to the White House Radio and Television Correspondents' dinner that the President had tried to discourage him from ad-libbing his speech, suggesting that he should recite only his name, rank and serial number in stead. Said Agnew: "Well, I told him I thought I ought to say something more important than that, and he looked at me again. And, you know, for a minute there I thought I had a glimpse of the old Nixon...
...impression of a sordid personal life is an excellent ploy. Arrange for a friend to telephone at the office, suggests Peter, and then within earshot of several co-workers cry out, "Don't tell my wife. If she finds out this will kill her." The hint of scandal ought to scotch any chance of promotion...
Oakland, the most improved team in the league this year, ought to face St. Louis, but the Blues' all-star goal-tending team of Jacque Planti and Glenn Hall makes the Blues the obvious Western Division pick...