Word: ought
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West Germany has piled up a favorable balance of payments of $1.3 billion and now has more than $6 billion in gold or gold equivalent. Instead of stashing away such "unnecessary reserves," said IMF Managing Director Per Jacobsson of Sweden. West Germany ought to be undertaking an imaginative capital export program...
This is not a question of dealing with "our enemies, the Communists," or of being calm and practical in bargaining with "enemy powers"--in this crisis the only enemy is self-wrought destruction. It is a situation which ought to shock us and to force upon us the recognition of a kinship, of a responsibility which is shared by all who have the power to push the button, and of a catastrophe which will be shared universally. There is an urgency about the condition of the present world which leaves no room for personal advantage or for the personal...
...liberals (often called "thinking liberals)--those who stand for a negotiated disarmament and for greater use of the United Nations--would do well to think about these questions. Unless revolution is contemplated--and there is something ludicrous in the thought of the HRLU taking to arms.--the liberal movement ought to get used to the idea that there are only two candidates. Liberals must realize that effective lobbying can be carried out only through one or the other of the major parties, not in defiance of them both. Nixon and the Republicans have already made it clear that they will...
...late employers." British butlerdom reeled with shock. Samuel Bretson, head of the nation's only school for butlers, was in despair at Cronin's repeating "tittle-tattle-and about the royals, too." Cried Bretson: "He is guilty of causing a shameful disturbance, and he didn't ought to have done...
...each time Ayub edged around to Kashmir-where the Indian army holds the populous and lovely Vale of Kashmir and the Pakistanis cling precariously to the rocky mountain flanks-Nehru's hackles rose. To Ayub's suggestion that India by now ought not to be afraid to accept the U.N.'s recommendations for a plebiscite, Nehru replied that the plebiscite would only stir up ''communal feeling"-Nehruese for the probability that Kashmir's predominantly Moslem population, even after 13 years of living under Indian rule, would still vote to join their fellow Moslems...