Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were willing to accommodate Reagan. But Mitterrand, who appeared to relish playing France's traditional role of odd man out at economic summits, adamantly refused to set an early--or any--date for trade negotiations. He voiced varied objections: that the talks had to be carefully prepared; that they ought to be linked to a monetary-reform conference, about which the U.S. is dubious; most of all, that trade talks might hatch a deal on agricultural products that would hurt French farmers...
...zone of sentiment, sentimentality, and naked-nipple camp. With a synthesizer beat that commands the dance floor, tender melodies that call for industrial-sized Dramamine, and pretty-boy vocals that would do credit to the Krokodiloes. Depeche Mode somehow manages to subvert the teen-age romantic schlock slot they ought to fit so well...
...mannerisms of several members of A-World cafe society. As the father of the Bliss family, he is quietly and yet severely perturbed by any distractions in his work." He puts the least stress on Anglicizing his speech, despite an ethnic advantage; the rest of the cast ought to have followed his example...
...Richard Nixon would again endear him to liberals in the 1970s, Ervin was profoundly conservative. He was a diehard supporter of the Viet Nam War, anti- ERA and an unswerving opponent of civil rights laws. According to Ervin's strictly states-rights' reading of the Constitution, the document ought to forbid federal civil rights intervention, as well as the no-knock search warrants and sweeping Executive privilege sought by Nixon...
...Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine, and he thinks he is Secretary of State." When Harkin and his fellow freshman Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts got home brandishing a cease-fire proposal from Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, the venerable Republican Barry Goldwater said they both ought to be reprimanded for interfering in the President's business...