Word: deservingness
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The scandal-ridden city administration that gives Mayor White three cars, a private boat, a near-million-dollar entertainment center called the Parkman House, and unlimited patronage is a deserving target for anyone's tirades. The nine-member city council itself--made up of seven lawyers and an undertaker, all...
The '76 Giants did just what was expected of them--they fell down at the feet of the Dallas Cowboys, who also play in a pretty new stadium, but enjoy the estimable privilege of deserving it.
The abuses of patronage extend even beyond this wholesale job distribution and discrimination. Often unnecessary job titles are created when more patronage is needed. Many city workers have been found working other jobs, or more frequently, laboring at the party offices, while supposedly occupying a desk in City Hall. And...
"Party" culled out of the lyricists' work songs from the deserving famous to those mysteriously vanished into the oubliette of public memory. For the most part, Comden and Green avoid songs made unsingably immortal by the particular stars for whom they were written, choosing instead those in which the thrust...
Emptying Banks. He admits that during the several decades he spent in jail, he worked without letup at breaking out (succeeding three times). During the few years he spent at large, he thought about almost nothing but emptying banks (he succeeded an undisclosed number of times, but failed often enough...