Word: ought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more the sick nations grasp the failures of their own leaders, the more they long for some outsider to set things right. Fairly or not, the burden of leadership ultimately falls on the U.S. Clinton ought to be the reassurer of last resort, but he is distracted by the Lewinsky scandal, and many are concerned that his personal stature and moral authority are seeping away. His attention to foreign affairs has always been intermittent but surely diminishes the more time he must spend with his lawyers...
...industry in which public criticism is an unforgivable faux pas if not a cardinal sin, you opened fire on two of show-biz-land's most beloved citizens. First there was the charming advice you told the New York Daily News you gave ROBERT DE NIRO, that he ought to do Shakespeare. "It's ridiculous for an actor that good to keep playing Las Vegas hoods. That's terrible," you said. Never mind that he's only actually played one Las Vegas hood. And then you opined that except for his roles in the movies A Few Good...
...down in Kentucky to complain, and urged the Missouri Democrat "to walk this thing back," as a top aide to the President put it. Gephardt did what Bowles asked, but only up to a point. "I do trust the President," he assured TIME the next day, adding that "we ought not jump to conclusions one way or the other." But no amount of rephrasing could hide the fact that Democrats are distancing themselves from Clinton as they nervously wait for Starr's report...
...institutionalization of spin is one reason some journalists have qualms about government officials' passing through the revolving door into our profession. These qualms are too hoity-toity. Journalism should be a game anyone is allowed to play. But when folks show up claiming to be reformed spinners, they ought to confess their own past spins before they start denouncing others'. Let the person without spin cast the first stone...
Weeks ago, Hatch made an offer of consideration for confession, which he repeated in some form in virtually every TV appearance. My first reaction was that he ought to put that in writing for purposes of negotiating the terms of surrender. My second was to wonder exactly how much contrition he wanted, on a scale from Nixonian modified hangout to a full Jimmy Swaggart, from something suitable for family viewing to a blushing Playboy-channel disclosure. Hatch made a direct appeal to Clinton when he crossed paths with one of the President's spokesmen at NBC's green room...