Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...figures he escaped from personal imprisonment when he left San Angelo, Texas, where he was brought up. A hitch in the Marines and five years spent on architectural work in Texas taught him, he says, just how stifling his boyhood had been. Then one day he decided that he ought to change his whole life. "I was too fat," he remembers; so he went on a diet. "I also told myself I should stop drinking and smoking. Along with that, I decided I should do what I really wanted to do-paint." He has stuck to painting ever since...
CHALMERS admits to ideas about General Education "which to some of my colleagues are subversive." The program, he says, "ought to move in the direction of relevance, and confront undergraduates with problems that relate to the real world. A good case can be made for this work being done by relatively young instructors...
...Traditionalists don't like to see this contemporary stuff. There are still some mutterings that General Education is really about cultural heritage. I think it ought to be about now rather than then...
...Negro disorders so affected Agnew that eventually he seemed to be acting at complete odds with his earlier record. He implied that fleeing looters ought to be shot on sight by police. He claimed that the Kerner Commission Report on ghetto rioting might actually abet further disorder. When the Poor People's Campaign arrived in Washington, he condemned the Johnson Administration for allowing the marchers to camp on public land. Those gut reactions at once neutralized his liberal image and sent him toward a place on the G.O.P. national ticket...
...housewife asked Richard Nixon in his first "citizen's panel" campaign TV show, what he thought about all the Commies teaching our youths on college campuses. Nixon explained ponderously that learning about communism is a good thing (know your enemy) but that those who actually advocate a subversive line ought not to be tolerated...