Word: meritable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...practiced law, got into politics as a state legislator, entered the Army as a second lieutenant, at 33 had a colonel's eagles and the Legion of Merit for his work in the Transportation Corps in Europe. The Independents drafted him as their candidate while he was still in a separation center...
...Francisco and London. At Potsdam he chain-smoked, enthusiastically bummed chewing gum from every Yank he met, consumed vast quantities of food and vodka, kept his belly shaking with laughter between mouthfuls. President Truman liked Kruglev well enough to give him an autographed picture, a Legion of Merit...
...Global Merit. For the trucemakers, and for China, it had been a touch-&-go week. Their talks opened at General Marshall's residence, the Yu Gardens, also wryly known as Failure House because it had lodged other, unsuccessful U.S. missions...
Next morning the truce was drafted. From the rostrum of the opening session of the Political Consultation Conference, the Generalissimo proclaimed the news amid a thunder of applause. Cried Chungking's Ta Kung Pao: "General Marshall . . . has achieved merit of global proportions...
Exclusive Order. Churchill, who has rejected other honors, was one recipient of the seldom awarded Order of Merit, which means just what it says. Another: Lord Portal...