Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professors can't take distractions and can't do their work, they ought to resist them," said Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, one of Harvard's more prolific professors...
Today, as Harvard contemplates its role in the world beyond the Yard, it ought not lose sight of its true purpose. As an academic community, Harvard can offer society no greater gift than its commitment to free and penetrating inquiry...
Reardon and Glimp say the higher-priced tickets will help defray the celebration's $1 million price-tag. "I don't feel we ought to use scholarship money to finance the extravaganza," says Glimp...
...Ronald Reagan's White House office a high official said worriedly, "It could take a crisis before this country comes to grips with the economic problem it faces." And on Capitol Hill, one of the handful of men who run the place mused, "Democracies don't do what they ought to do until events leave them no choice." The White House blames Congress for not cutting spending, and Congress blames the White House for not raising revenues. With that kind of talk, you can hear the locomotives gaining speed...
...have many differing interpretations of the sources in women's history, and we reject the claims of anyone to be representing a 'true interpretation' of women's history." The president of the American Historical Association, Carl Degler of Stanford, defends Rosenberg: "She had an argument to make, and she ought not to be called into question...