Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter of fact," said the colleague who had resigned from the Millennium Club, "I'm enough of a libertarian to think that as long as a club is really private, it ought to be free to exclude anybody it wants, women or blacks or Greeks or people with red hair or whatever. Let them all start their own clubs...
...depends on foreign producers for 38% of its supplies. In 1973, when oil prices surged in the wake of the Arab embargo against the U.S., Americans relied on foreign producers for 35% of their oil. As in the halcyon days of the 1960s, Americans believe they ought to be able to buy big cars if they feel like it or turn up the thermostat at every chill...
Many students have contended that when the university violates the campus judicial system, members of the university ought to be able to prosecute Cornell within the school's own system of justice...
...that he was more of a selfless patriot than an out-of-control cowboy. On the day the Tower report was released, he was asked what he would like people to know about him as they go through the report. A born-again Christian, North replied, "I guess they ought to read the Eighth Beatitude of Matthew 5." That New Testament passage reads: "Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." As Iranscam's investigations continue, however, North is more likely to be prosecuted for recklessness' sake...
...Americans' favorite antidote to that current cultural Grinch: stress. Nothing kinky, just a way to get out the kinks. "It's the ideal therapy for the '80s," declares Robert King, president of the Chicago-based American Massage Therapy Association. "Instead of having an extra martini or gulping Valium, people ought to consider a professional massage...