Word: ought
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Play, according to some conservative critics, is precisely what four-year-olds ought to be doing--at home with Mom. "It's a transfer of funds away from the mother taking care of the child," says Patrick Fagan, FitzGerald fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation. "It's a double taxation on the mother at home. She takes care of her own kids and pays for others...
Maybe this concern for what our fears of domestic terrorism might someday, not too far off, do to our way of life is just a sort of intellectual McGuffin, designed to make us soppy liberals take The Siege more seriously than we ought to. The movie does, after all, present the bruising, intricately staged spectacle of New York City brought to a quaking halt by a series of ever more serious bombings--first a bus, then a crowded theater, then a federal building--mounted by that lately easiest-to-despise of all groups, Arab fanatics. A panicked government institutes martial...
...debate the legitimacy of interpreting the Bible to this end. Religious reasoning against homosexuality should not be cast aside as easily as has become common practice--rather, it must be examined and energetically engaged. Homosexuality might also be opposed cogently by traditionalists. To the suggestion that homosexuality ought to be approved and embraced, the starchy traditionalist might reasonably reply: "Thanks, but heterosexuality as the sole acceptable form of sexual expression has been working out tolerably well over the past couple of millennia--I think that we ought to stick with what we know." The best way to address this argument...
WILLIE NELSON I always thought a grand jury was a big secret thing. I've been before a grand jury before, and I took the Fifth about 20 times, and maybe Bill ought to have done the same thing...
...CINCINNATI REDS: This imposing group had several superb players. Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Tony Perez, Pete Rose: the first two are in the Hall of Fame, the third ought to be, and the last would be if he weren't such a jerk. Broadcaster Bob Costas insists that this year's Yankee starting lineup couldn't compete with the eight everyday players on the '75 Reds. This may be true, but just try to name another Cincinnati starting pitcher apart from the hardly immortal Don Gullett. If you said Fredie Norman, Gary Nolan or Jack Billingham, you win a prize...