Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fleas & Elephant. A united Europe is bound to emerge as the world's leading power, predicted Zhukov, making it clear that Russia ought to be included in the family. Even before the birth of the U.S., he said, "Dutch merchants traveled to St. Petersburg and Peter the Great came to Holland to learn a trade." This type of cooperation, he feels, continues today in such enterprises as the French Renault and Italian Fiat auto plants in the Soviet Union...
...supreme test of a woman's bathing suit ought to occur in the eye of the male beholder. Seven experienced girl-watchers studied the new designs and rendered the following judgments-on the suits, not the models...
...goodness knows how many mill in the bank, was out there doing a fancy two-step with this bull about the size of a Volkswagen, when all of a sudden another guy climbed into the ring. His name was Miguelin; he was a rank contender, but he thought he ought to be champ. So what did Miguelin do? He strolled up to El Cordobés' bull, put one hand on its shoulder, another on its rear end, and spun it right around in a circle. Then he kissed the bull on the nose and strutted off. "Boy," Willie...
...same, steps can be taken to minimize the danger. For one thing, TV ought to be used more effectively-and at public expense to avoid domination by the richest candidates. Why not devote national network time to each major candidate for a full day or even two? For once, voters could view the whole man instead of fleeting images. On a more practical level, security can be sharply improved. Had the Secret Service been guarding Kennedy last week-as it will guard presidential candidates from now on-the route through the Ambassador Hotel's serving kitchen would have been...
Before long, more of his music ought to be finding its way into the concert halls and onto recordings. Several of Gottschalk's long-lost major works, notably the Montevideo Symphony and the one-act opera Escenas Campestres, have been found in a private collection in Rio de Janeiro and have been purchased for the New York Public Library by Concert Pianist Eugene List. 'He was a real pioneer," says List. "His writing is sometimes Chopinesque, sometimes Lisztian, but always definitely American in flavor. It's scintillating, tuneful, fresh. It could have been written today...