Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opinion fourth-course pass-fail "doesn't face up to the real issue. We pretend that there are 6000 roughly comparable courses in the catalogue and that you can add up 16 1/2 of these units and call them a Harvard education. The whole system of courses and credits ought to be reconsidered...
...government colors riding state-owned nags. Bettors watch the morning line more closely than the party line, have made big sellers of such magazines as Hungary's Pesti Turf. So high is the gambling fever in Yugoslavia that one party wag has remarked that the state flag ought to have "two crossed croupier rakes on a green baize background...
...House, he declared: "Let us, Mr. Prime Minister, take courage from Lincoln's words, when he said to his Cabinet in that other tragic period: 'I am here, I must do the best I can, and bear the responsibility of taking the course which I feel I ought to take...
...their gear and escape in a Volkswagen station wagon. The only dialogue is an announcer's voiceover: "If you've created a rather large family and you have an awful lot to carry, chances are a normal station wagon won't be large enough. Maybe you ought to consider something not quite so normal-like a Volkswagen." Cost of the film: $52,000, or roughly $1,000 for each second of air time...
...seasons with the San Francisco Giants, Orlando Cepeda batted .308, belted 223 homers, drove in 752 runs-and took more abuse from his managers than any other player in baseball. Bill Rigney called him "a little boy, to whom winning a pennant isn't as important as it ought to be." Alvin Dark complained that Cepeda had "more minuses than pluses." Herman Franks said he was "lazy" and "a faker," publicly accused him of malingering when he was crippled by a knee injury that hampered him for two years and finally required surgery. Last year Cepeda demanded...