Word: oughtn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When asked to justify his opposition to the volunteer army while opposing the slow withdrawal from Vietnam, Kennedy strongly asserted that "we oughtn't have poor men fighting a rich man's war." The immediate effect of a volunteer army, he said, would be that the poor and underprivileged would take combat duty in order to receive higher wages...
...reformism. "With a little patience," he points out, "they could have had the same thing at less cost." Says Scherbaum, gently: "You oughtn't to take this business about history so tragically. Spring has no meaning, either...