Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pulled off one of his own. He got Pennsylvania's Joseph Clark, ardent champion of civil rights, to offer a motion to "table" the bill-a congressional euphemism for kill. Cried Clark: "I believe I can recognize the hand of politics ... I do not believe civil rights ought to stand in the way of the prompt enactment of proposed legislation which is on the calendar and ready for action." The vote was strictly party-line, and the Democratic majority tabled civil rights by a lopsided...
...asked for. He announced that he had no intention of spending any of the extra money. But then the pressures began inside his own Administration. Defense Secretary Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nathan Twining* returned from the aborted summit meeting in Paris to suggest that the U.S. ought to re-examine its defense setup and increase its "readiness." Just before the Republican Convention, Richard Nixon got together with Nelson Rockefeller in the meeting that produced the "Treaty of Fifth Avenue" (TIME cover, Aug. 1), with its call for "new efforts" in national defense...
Republican Keynoter Walter Judd: "We ought to dispense with the idea of having people in the galleries. Instead, we should put everyone except the delegates outside and let them watch through television. I wouldn't even let the press and television men wander up the aisles to interview everybody right in the middle of the proceedings. With all these people in there, the whole thing has just gotten too cumbersome...
Public prayer at civic functions is permissible only if it is doctrinally uncompromised. "Our national habit of utilizing prayer as a sort of ecclesiastical garnish to all manner of secular dishes ought to make the church circumspect." No prayer should suppress "the cardinal fact that access to God is by Jesus Christ and by him alone. To portray God, in prayer, as the good-natured old man accessible to all on any terms is to bely the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ...
...with U.S. consumer credit at a record $52.8 billion, too tight a hold on stock credit is unfair. Says Isaac W. Burnham II, senior partner of Burnham & Co.: "To exact 90%, 80% or 70% margin on the world's most liquid collateral-listed securities-is outrageous. The Fed ought to set margins at 50% and leave them there; 50% is adequate protection for customer and broker...