Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHARLIE BUBBLES. Albert Finney proves that he can direct as well as act, but leaves some question as to whether he ought to in this stupefyingly familiar film about a writer who has descended into a hell of modern materialism...
Some officials think that the President ought to ask Congress for a formal declaration of war and thereby make it easier to rein in the supercharged economy with wage and price controls, silence critics and mobilize troops. But the State Department adheres to the objections it listed in 1965 to such a declaration-chiefly, that it would risk "enlarging the scope of the conflict" and lead to "expanded involvement" by Hanoi's Communist allies. As for the legality of fighting a major conflict without a formal declaration of war, the U.S. has done so in six of its eleven...
...silence may be a temporary policy necessary because the Union is so little developed, or it may be calculated to circumvent the legal question by keeping the Union amorphous. The Union now ought to admit that it is not prepared to emerge publicly, or, even better, take a stand that all can accept or reject. A legal stance would be best tactically; if the legality of being affiliated with the Union is in question, most students probably will not take the risk...
There's a Tiger loose in the streets. The moan (of the engine) gets drowned out in its turn by a booming exhaust note that someone ought to bottle and seal as pure essence...
...Administrative Board, Elder said, voted to give the same treatment to incoming graduate students and to those already enrolled. "This seems to be just what we ought to do," he said...