Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think the object of criticism ought to be the policeman. The police are caught in the middle, between those who rise up, often without any purpose in mind other than the moment's rage, and on the other side the white intellectuals who often put the blame on the police rather than on more fundamental things that are responsible for the police action--action which is often, in the existential moment, absolutely necessary. I would aim criticism at people of far greater influence, people with a lot more power and social respect and status, a lot more money and--ironically...
...residents of East Cambridge are worried about this latest grievance, according to Vellucci. He related that a lady had called him and "suggested that we ought to take up the sidewalks after 6 p.m. in East Cambridge if we want to keep them...
...essence, the debates amounted to a bizarre bull session, frequently floundering in chaos. "The trouble with the world is that youth isn't being listened to and isn't being used," complained Student Alain Bedu. One recurrent and oddly revealing idea-that formal examinations ought to be abolished-met friendly rebuttal from many professors who joined in the dialogues. "Ending exams is not reasonable," said Professor Alfred Kastler, Nobel-prizewinnmg physicist. "You would be the victims. It would lead you and the university to feudal capitalism: selection by the fortune of parents." Students of every persuasion were heard...
...Also for the first time, the party newspaper Rude Pravo invited its readers to weigh in with their views on the direction Czechoslovakia ought to take. The questions in the poll were nothing if not direct, including one that asked whether "an internal democratization process of the Communist Party is a sufficient guarantee for democracy...
Even though the antihero has no morals, drive-in flicks always do. Ultimately, Jones finds himself surrounded by hostile children, who bring the joke full circle by insisting: "Everybody over ten ought to be put out of business." Everybody would include the operators of American International. That could be the greatest put-on of them...