Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...room is nice. It ought to be, after the conditions that I and countless other Quadlings have had to put up with for the past two years: walls with holes in them, decaying bathrooms, exploding toilets, construction at 6:30 a.m.--including jackhammers right on the exterior walls of our bedrooms...
...many of them already have cracks in the plaster and peeling paint. This after less than a year of occupancy. Surely $20 million plus ought to have bought renovations that would last longer than a year...
WHILE RONALD REAGAN inundates the masses with emergency warnings of a nationwide "drug epidemic," Americans ought to begin to wonder. Wonder, for example, why the same man who cut the Alcohol, Drug Abuses and Mental Health Administration's funding by almost $300 million between 1980 and 1985 now tells us that drugs are "killing America and terrorizing it with slow but sure chemical destruction...
...hope was that we could in fact make reasoned approaches [to the protests]," said Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 in an interview during Commencement week. "Although they may have been violating the regulations of the University, we felt we ought to be as tolerant and as reasonable as possible in allowing them leniency to make their protest...
Robertson's message speaks only to a specific group but he's learned to direct it toward real people, maybe only three million strong, not empty numbers in a demographic study. The next person who wants to lead this country ought to lead all of it. Unless progressives learn the lesson the Reverend Robertson teaches, the voice of America's extremists will become a lot more appealing...