Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet pullout to the President as he sat through a luncheon commemorating the 100th birthday of Harry Truman, Reagan merely frowned and murmured, "Oh, no." He said nothing in public for 24 hours, and then took a calculated tone of sorrow rather than anger. Said the President: "It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish...
...accustomed to timid, representational productions of safe repertoire in their theaters and opera houses, could use a taste of the freewheeling iconography that now dominates in Europe. If it is Wil son's dream to come home, it is the phantasmagorical allegory of the CIVIL warS that ought to bring...
...preposterous to hold creators responsible for the indirect effects of their speech or publications on certain dangerously impressionable members of society. Ought President Reagan to be able to sue Jodie Foster and Martin Scorsese because they inspired John Hinckley? One is reminded of the trial in Florida a few years ago, in which a juvenile delinquent claimed that his crimes stemmed from a Kojak addiction...
AFTER a half century of virtually uninterrupted military rule, a hint of democracy has finally penetrated Argentina's totalitarian armor President Raul Alfonsin's government, succeeding a brutal military regime, offers many Argentines what it ought to offer the Reagan Administration a chance to make a Latin American nation survive and prosper And, perhaps more importantly for the U.S. Alfonsin has given the Administration a plum chance to put its money where its mouth to really work for liberty and justice...
...Mondale of beating Reagan. But after last week's rebuffs, Hart may have little chance of winning over the party faithful in San Francisco. On Thursday, when he left Texas to campaign in Ohio and Louisiana, it seemed more like a retreat than a strategy. Gibed Mondale: "He ought to stick around and get his delegates the old-fashioned way like I do-I earn them." As he closed in on the prize, Walter Mondale, once dismissed as lacking the fire and stamina for a presidential campaign, could make that claim with special pride. -By George J. Church. Reported...