Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...religion issue exists and will continue to bulk large in the 1960 campaign. A few papers, such as the Charleston, S.C. News & Courier, argue that Kennedy's Catholicism is a vital and valid political issue. More typical is the Columbus, Miss. Commercial Dispatch: "It is regrettable that what ought to be at most a relatively minor concern is overshadowing such major issues as foreign aid, economic growth and civil rights...
...adviser. The Kennedy-leaning New York Post promptly withdrew Robinson's daily column from circulation for the duration of the campaign. Robinson, still a big hero among millions of U.S. Negroes, has long needled Jack Kennedy for not being as fervently in favor of civil rights as he ought...
...method is Dr. Harold T. Meryman of the Naval Medical Research Institute at Bethesda, Md., who stumbled onto the new-type taxidermy after a peanut butter-baited mousetrap at his home snared an unsuspecting cardinal. "I felt so bad about it," says Meryman, "that I decided I ought to give the bird a place in posterity." No taxidermist. Biophysicist Meryman, 39, tried an experiment. Posing the cardinal carefully, he first froze its joints into position with liquid nitrogen, then popped the bird into his kitchen freezer. When the moisture in the bird's body had turned to ice, Meryman...
...surveys that he had made in New York of the Jewish, Negro and Catholic votes. Catholics, he said, were not committed to Kennedy, but "if Kennedy can just give the impression that he knows how to deal with Fidel Castro, he will solve all his problems." The Democrats "ought to do well with the Negro voters this time, unless our 52-voter sample was seriously misleading." And "it is a good bet that in 1960 New York's Jewish voters will be more heavily Democratic than ever...
...Cloyd H. Marvin, who resigned last year, George Washington never really took fire. It looks and acts like a commuter college, and two-thirds of its faculty (648) work part time. "We have a good university," says Board Chairman Newell W. Ellison, "but it isn't what it ought...