Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Osagyefo (Redeemer), the title that most tickles Nkrumah's vanity. They print his speeches and praise his every deed with a loyalty-firmly cemented by $8,000,000 in government subsidies-that leaves very little room for anything else, particularly news. By rights, such a love match ought to endure as long as the government treasury. But last week, to the consternation of the Times and the News, the Osagyefo cut them off without a dime...
...anyone is expert about the stage, it ought to be the American National Theatre and Academy, chartered by Congress in 1935 to "extend the living Theatre beyond its present limits." Tax-exempt and supported by culture-loving subscribers, ANTA produced many worthy revivals and experimental shows, and even an original hit, Mrs. McThing, but found itself continually broke. Last fall ANTA decided to make some money by investing not in Wall Street, the race track or a brewery, but in the riskiest business of all-Broadway. The results were disastrous...
...take her to the Yale Bowl, and it'd be fourth down and five to go, she'd say to me, 'Oh, why are they kicking the ball?' I'd say, 'Come on, Jackie, none of that.' She felt she ought to play up to the big Yaleman. The truth is, she probably knew more about football than...
...Emperor Augustus moods," says Investment Banker Charles Spalding, who was present. "So when she came in, he started to give her the needle, but she gave it right back. Old Joe has a lot of old-fashioned slang phrases, so Jackie told him: 'You ought to write a series of grandfather stories for children, like "The Duck with Moxie," and "The Donkey Who Couldn't Fight His Way Out of a Telephone Booth...
...Again, these things ought to be done for their own sakes, not simply because "American prestige" suffers in the meantime. But the hypocritical and indecisive picture of the United States that these unsolved quandaries paint is another compelling argument for their immediate solution...