Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fines and jail sentences can be imposed. Overuse of the device in the early days of trade unionism made "government by injunction" a burning political issue; by 1930, Felix Frankfurter and Nathan Greene, in a classic book on the subject, were proposing a new law and writing that "injunctions ought never to become rou tine." Two years later, the Norris-La Guardia Act virtually eliminated them in federal courts, and later Supreme Court rulings eventually curbed state courts as well...
...harried brokerage house to announce that the issue had been "very heavily oversubscribed." Altogether, investors came running with enough cash to buy the issue 100 times over. So great was the crush that it will be days before brokers can figure out who was first-come and ought to be first-served, thus delaying the opening of regular trading in the stock on the London exchange until this week...
Monro added that it is inevitable that the decision-making process will be looked at, and ought to be. The military should make the decision on commissioning its own officers; on the other hand, a military group by operating at a place like Harvard is obligated to bring itself out in the open...
...British Genealogist Philip Thomas in the latest edition of the authoritative Burke's Peerage. The harsh terms of her morganatic marriage to the abdicated King Edward VIII in 1937 were "the most flagrant act of discrimination in the whole history of our dynasty," Thomas fumed, arguing that she ought to be recognized as the "consort of a royal prince" and referred to as "Her Royal Highness" instead of having to scruff along as "Her Grace...
...after next week. In More Stately Mansions, Bergman will play an odious matriarch battling her daughter-in-law for her son. Equally important is the chance to perform a "good play" by "America's greatest playwright, one whose work the people ought to be seeing." Despite her personal tranquillity, Bergman is worried about "a world where there can be no peace, where people are continuously hurting each other...