Word: deservingness
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While these boats probably won't grab any headlines by winning races, they're deserving of a second look because of their unique backgrounds.
The average Chinese is now said to spend a quarter of his or her salary on clothes. Tickets for garment fairs are sold by scalpers at 50 times face value. The biggest rage of all is for Western-style suits. So desired is the new look that for a while...
The Pforzheimer University Professor said he didn't think he "really earned the title" because he never "really worked at being tweedy." But he was quick to add that he could think of no other Harvard professor who was more deserving of the honor.
The first day Bella Davidovich sat down to practice the piano in her new apartment in Queens, N.Y., a neighbor slipped a note under the door asking her not to play so loudly. Winner of the International Chopin Competition, faculty member at the Moscow Conservatory, Deserving Artist of the Soviet...
She was able to take one rug, no furniture and no books or scores that predated 1946; family heirlooms had to be left behind. Forsaken too was the hard-won respect that the Soviets gave grudgingly to Jewish artists. "Jews are considered a lower echelon," notes Davidovich, a gentle, gracious...