Word: ought
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...Vineyard scenery as colored clay cliffs and salt marshes. Its present editor, Henry Hough, 71, who bought it in 1920, is a regional novelist (Lament for a City) and folklorist (Thoreau of Walden). And he has never ceased to celebrate the charms of the Vineyard in his paper. "It ought to be the function of the newspaper," wrote Hough, who will continue as editor, "to keep guard and watch over the singularities of environment, heritage, custom, and response to challenges...
Most newspapers seemed to think the caricature was harmless enough to be printable, but the Washington Evening Star did not. It dropped the strip for three days. As Managing Editor I. William Hill put it: "If someone wants to go after the President that viciously, it ought to be on the editorial page. It's a little oldfashioned, I know, but we still think that the office of the President of the U.S. deserves some dignity...
This may sound more like a crusader than a nature-lover, but that's not a bad description: he is a crusader, a new muckraker, in some ways typical of a changed tone in what conservation ought to mean. At 55, he is agile and athletic, still a skilled mountaineer, with a prophet's shock of white hair. His voice has a slight, unstudied Westernness that permits him to be lyrical occasionally. When he describes some of the tremendously complicated problems of dealing with the earth as a closed system, they reduce to a transparent simplicity. He projects himself...
Maybe you ought to try a little...
Most people think of Buffalo, when they think of it at all, as a sooty industrial port on a blustery bluff overlooking Lake Erie. They ought to try shuffling off to Buffalo some time...