Word: merit
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Sota finished sixth in the 1965 Masters, which remains the highest finish by a continental player. After a two-year bout with rheumatism, he achieved a golfing first of dubious merit during the 1972 Double Diamond Tournament when he became the only professional to ever be penalized for slow play in Britain. This unparalleled humiliation evoked heated resentment on the home front and hastened Sota's untimely retirement...
...addition, the American Bar Association has once again given TIME the Certificate of Merit in its annual Gavel awards competition for legal reporting. Singled out were: "The Crime Wave," a cover story written by Jose M. Ferrer III, James Atwater and John Leo; "The Truth About Hoover," written by Ed Magnuson; and "Curbing It Without Killing It," a story on bringing the Federal Bureau of Investigation under control, written by Frank B. Merrick...
...eventually came to love both places; and how quite exquisitely appropriate that last week, finally, he was recognized with a marble plaque placed in the floor of Poets' Corner, near where Eliot and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are also memorialized, and reading simply:"Henry James. O.M./ for Order of Merit/ Novelist New York 1843. London...
...scrappy, hustling game that the Yankees now play seems out of tune in the new Yankee Stadium, which still seems magisterial and, somehow, important. But, for my two cents' worth, the renovated version doesn't merit its $100 million price tag. A $5 ticket in the new, "unobstructed view" stadium still did not afford a glimpse of half of right field...
Those who wish to establish a fair and humane society should not begin by advocating unfair and inhumane programs which are counterproductive. People should be regarded as individuals standing on their own merit, rather than as members of races and minority groups. As a step in this direction, towards a fair and humane society, affirmative action quotas should be abolished...