Word: ought
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...first private citizen in outer space would be a teacher? Garn retorts, with some logic, that he is not a private citizen. "I am a public official," he says. "I am concerned. I even flew the B-1 bomber years ago, to decide whether that was something I ought to vote for or not, and I've driven the M-1 tank for the same reason." * Despite the flak about Garn's flight, 69% of those polled in a recent Salt Lake City newspaper survey supported the mission. Such popularity must please Garn, who faces the down-to-earth task...
QUOTE: "We are not about to send American boys 10,000 miles away to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves...
...that," says John Wheeler, chairman of the veterans' group that raised the money and built it. "I had a picture of seven-year-olds throwing a Frisbee around on the grass in front. But it's treated as a spiritual place." When Wheeler's colleague Jan Scruggs decided there ought to be a monument, he had only vague notions of what it might be like. "You don't set out and build a national shrine," Scruggs says. "It becomes...
Nixon sees the three decades of American engagement in Indochina as a litany of "too little, too late." He wishes Truman had forced the French to bring about an independent, non-Communist state. That having failed, he believes President Eisenhower ought to have sent in air support to relieve the French at Dien Bien Phu; as Ike's Vice President, Nixon says, he counseled that "our choice was to help the French now or be faced with the necessity of taking over the burden." He condemns President Kennedy for the overthrow of Diem, which he argues led to political instability...
...pleasure of a Hollein building comes from "the personal attention he gives his work. You truly sense the artist's hand controlling every detail." In fact, Hollein is also a gallery artist, but he finds praise like Graves' somewhat backhanded. "Exquisite craftsmanship and careful detailing are what an architect ought to be expected to deliver," Hollein says. "I don't think you should be applauded...