Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over the President, plus Ike's outspoken defense of the U-2 flights, probably hurt Khrushchev seriously in the eyes of his own people, hurt his position in the Communist bloc as well. (During the U-2 uproar, China's Mao Tse-tung noted caustically: "This ought to convince those naive enough to put their trust in imperialists.") Asked by the New York Herald Tribune's intrepid Moscow correspondent Tom Lambert to explain what he had meant by saying in Paris that his "attitude on the U-2 flight was due in some measure to the domestic...
...guests that he was wholeheartedly in favor of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's scheduled inquiry into the summit collapse. He agreed with Committee Chairman William Fulbright that there had already been too much talk about softness toward Communism-on both sides. "There are those who think I ought to be giving the President unshirted hell," said Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson the next day, "but I was proud as hell of my country after that meeting...
...Such agreement ought to be possible to achieve by mutual concessions...
...redistributing his family's gain, he was in a sense carrying out the will of God. At 36. he resigned from half a dozen directorships, and for the next half-century he dedicated his life to philanthropy. "I have been brought up to believe," he said, "that giving ought to be entered into in just the same careful way as investing-and tested by the same intelligent standards...
...choice, Owner Isaac Blumberg, 72, a retired Illinois machine-tool manufacturer, nursed a double bourbon and pessimistically recalled 1958 when his Lincoln Road finished second to Tim Tam in both the Derby and the Preakness. Down in the paddock, Trainer Vic Sovinski gave Hartack instructions: "You ought to be third or fourth going into the clubhouse turn, but lay back until the backstretch. Then go when you see your spot...