Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talks like an executive fitness center, in terms of slimming down and wising up. The brayings of protectionists suggest that the onetime home of swaggering competitiveness is beginning to see itself as a large island fort, and even if the protectionist mentality fails to carry the day (as it ought to fail), one rarely hears the opposite talk that the best...
...moment he was hatched in 1937. Through every comic humiliation that befell him -- whether getting vamped by a transvestite rabbit or fricasseed by an irate hunter -- he displayed the bravura resilience of a born loser. This master thespian could play an existential hero (Duck Amuck), a base canard (You Ought to Be in Pictures), a hard-breathing hoofer (Show Biz Bugs) or a World War II draft dodger (Draftee Daffy). Wily farceur, dynamite showman, he made 126 pictures before retiring in 1968. For years he could be seen only on kiddie TV shows or -- oh, the ignominy...
...crammed into the official semester. In addition, a majority of students have multiple term papers due during this time. The professors' attitude is that if you want to study for finals over "reading period," then you'd better do your papers during "vacation." I think these people ought to have their "brains" checked...
...bear them off to the other side of the world and destroy them, for reasons progressively more obscure. Lyndon Johnson had campaigned for the White House in 1964 by promising that "we are not about to send American boys 10,000 miles away to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves," but he ! ended by treating the war as a crusade for freedom and squandering his presidency and his country...
...myths that enthrall it. Not all the music that is worth hearing is being heard. New music is not automatically fearsome nor unplayed works from the past intrinsically worthless. The media- fueled system that turns performers into celebrities needs serious re- examination; The Tonight Show and Madison Square Garden ought not to be venues that certify stars...