Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite a below peak, hitless performance, the squad coasted into the top of the seventh on the 3-1 lead it had held since the third. The possibility of a loss seemed as remote as the notion that a team ought to get at least one hit if it wants to win a game...
...Amendment requires a grand jury indictment before someone can be prosecuted for a major federal offense, and 19 states have similar rules for felonies. A grand jury, called by the prosecutor and made up of up to 23 randomly selected citizens, decides by a majority vote whether a suspect ought to stand trial. The prosecutor gathers and presents all evidence heard by the jury. In most states defense lawyers are not allowed into the deliberations. Grand jury witnesses may be prosecuted for any crime they may mention in testimony unless they are granted immunity, a rule that proved particularly thorny...
...Rivera ought to give himself some credit, too, because he and team batting leader Bob Kay both went three for five. Rivera lifted his average...
...ought to feel as if we knew considerably more about the Soviet Union after these 28 months. Certainly, we try hard enough to know. Before Konstantin Chernenko's death, Gorbachev was already being tracked like a meteor: Margaret Thatcher likes what she saw of him; he has a lovely wife and a grandchild; did you hear the delightful joke he made about Marx and the British Museum? Yes, but one has to watch the silver; just because he is educated and urbane does not mean he is soft. Clearly, he is out to kill Star Wars. And he does have...
...them to solve their problems," an aide said Reagan had told his staff after Gorbachev's elevation. "If the Soviets worry about us being aggressive, we ought to be able to solve that one. Beyond that, we can only keep trying." Reagan's first try was to send George Bush to the Chernenko funeral; then he shaped the personal letter to Gorbachev that the Vice President would carry. The responses from Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko to such private entreaties had read like the handiwork of a committee, and not a very skilled committee at that. Reagan rather thinks he will...