Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Something About a Soldier. Branwell's sad saga ought to have made a more compelling story than Novelist Daphne Du Maurier has made of it. She is too busy justifying Branwell to do psychological justice to his twisted life. As a boy, Branwell was startlingly precocious. At eight, he could commit a page to memory on a single reading, repeat a lesson verbatim, store away names, dates, and places with faultless recall. Ambidextrous, he could write two letters at once. His proud, high-strung curate father had been left a widower with six small children, five of them girls...
...know," said Nik thoughtfully, "perhaps I ought to appoint some Smolensk men. The way things are now, half the government goes off to drown their sorrows every time Novogoro loses, and they're totally unfit for work the next morning...
...choices. They hold that the quality of American life-the level of education, the extent of unemployment and poverty-is a prime responsibility of government. Thus they see taxes and budgets not as evil or good in themselves, but as instruments for doing the things that they think government ought...
Clark Kerr, President, University of California: By summer, certainly, things ought to be on an upward trend. In a way, the recession looks worse than it is. Because the labor force is growing rapidly, unemployment pulls up faster than would be the case in a normal inventory adjustment...
Stanley Ruttenberg, A.F.L-C.I.O. Chief Economist: There is more reliance upon the hope of a turnaround than there ought to be. We believe that a quick tax cut, in the neighborhood of $4 billion or $5 billion, must be combined with all the other programs advanced...