Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When grumbling could be heard at the suggestion that Monday's session be cut short to allow Deputies to attend the funeral, Gorbachev intervened, noting that "we ought to pay our respects to Andrei Dimitreyevich." Approached by reporters, Gorbachev delivered a eulogy of his own, hinting at his genuine feelings for the man who had so often challenged him to move further and faster toward overhauling their struggling country. "It is a great loss," he said. "You could agree or not agree with him, but you knew he was a man of conviction and sincerity. He was not a political...
...ramifications of this possibility are so serious that they ought to worry the West more than they do. Would a complete Soviet collapse, after all, be a good or a bad thing...
...party rule would be a capitulation. But there were signs last week that the Kremlin was willing to fiddle with the text. Noting that Article 6 was "not a taboo subject," Politburo ideologist Vadim Medvedev said the present wording should not be kept "at all cost" and ought to be "brought into line with the party's new role in society...
...make a great institution continue to be great appealed to me so much that I have little difficulty deciding that I ought to do it," a newly-appointed Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence said in 1984, explaining his decision to accept the post...
...make a great institution continue to be great appealed to me so much that I have little difficulty deciding that I ought...