Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Holed Bastard. When Premier Lumumba returned to Leopoldville from one of his hectic flights and got into a Sabena bus for the elevenmile ride into the city, paratroopers rocked the bus so violently that they raised it a foot off the ground. One of them shouted: "We ought to shoot this bastard full of holes!" Lumumba finally escaped under the escort of a U.S. embassy car. U.N. Representative Ralph Bunche, who had been confined to his hotel room by Force Publique mutineers, was manhandled by Belgian paratroops at the airport...
...Johnson saw it, the convention ought to be a serious conclave where the delegates meet "to consider who can best lead a party and the nation." Jack Kennedy, in his drive for the nomination, shaped his strategy to a newer concept: the idea that the business of the convention is to nomi nate the man who, eliciting the most popular support, winning the most primaries and drawing the most enthusiastic cheers, has shown himself to be the most politically glamorous candidate, the people's choice. Johnson, little known to the public, felt that he deserved the nomination because, more than...
...backtracked in three weeks from 710 to 600 votes. "California, here I am," thundered Johnson in his speech to a disappointingly small welcoming crowd at the Los Angeles airport. "It doesn't matter how many razzle-dazzle predictions you get. The only thing that's important is who ought to lead this nation." From the faithful 300 welled cries...
...were staggeringly against him, he wheeled in relaxed fashion from meeting to luncheon to television show to cocktail party, preaching his doctrine of the right of the best man to win. "Everybody talks about who's going to be nominated" said he, "when the real question should be who ought to be nominated...
...other hand, [summer courses] work in vacation time many students and teachers who ought not to do anything, whose minds ought to lie fallow and recuperate with their bodies, and for whom in doing this the ordinary vacation is none too long. Much as the summer schools may seem to be accomplishing an important result, we believe they are in keeping with that effort to cheat nature by making more out of life than can reasonably be made, which is one of the great characteristics of modern life in this country...