Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view with displeasure, the Program will readily bring dollars in from outside the University. In hundreds of towns across the country sit thousands of men waiting to give millions of dollars: rejected applicants, exiled assistant professors, severed sophomores--all thirsting for revenge. And A Program Against Harvard College ought to be a smash hit in New Haven...
...where politicians bow like willow trees before racial and religious breezes, New York City's Police Commissioner Stephen Patrick Kennedy is an up-from-the-pavement cop (he likes the word) with a concrete sense of duty. A routine proposal that every Jewish police officer on the force ought to be excused from duty on the Jewish High Holy Days last week seemed to Commissioner Kennedy scarcely worth considering. He had already ordered every one of the 24,000 cops in the city, except those on vacation, to stand emergency duty during all the hubbub of international visitors...
...government. Paul Ziffren, California's former Democratic National Committeeman, asked, "How many old people have to go without adequate medical care before the Republicans think it's time for government action? How many children must go to school on double session before the Republicans think the Federal government ought to act? How depressed must a depressed area be before private means of relief are considered exhausted?" There were several more in a series of these questions, and to all of them Hatfield's reply was something like, "Well, I'm glad you asked that question, because it's a very...
...your Sept. 5 article on Howard Johnson and his restaurants: when Mr. Johnson travels around the country, he ought to stop at the Howard Johnson restaurant in Baton Rouge. There he will find mediocre food, sloooooooooow service, LOUD noises, and dirty restrooms...
...suggests that literature may be taught the same way. Given the first part of a story, a child could be trained to complete it as a tragedy or a farce long before he understood those words. A young child should be introduced early to great human themes. "A curriculum ought to be built around the great issues, principles and values that a society deems worthy of the continual concern of its members...