Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strongest Republican supporters of the bipartisan foreign policy, had boarded a troop ship last September and sailed for Yokohama. He conferred with Douglas MacArthur and spent three weeks (at his own expense) in eastern Asia. Last week he made public his recommendations, which had at least the merit of being a positive attempt to deal with a tragic situation while it could still be dealt with...
Double Reward. In Custer, S. Dak., Forestry Service Foreman Steven Hoy, who treated his own wounds after an accident, received a Red Cross Certificate of Merit for saving his own life...
...written and strewn with loose ends, the melodrama is robbed of much of its inherent tension by overacting. But it has a variety of unpretentious and believable sets (notably those around its drugstore corner) put together by someone who knew sidestreet architecture and atmosphere. By even so modest a merit-and by trying to be nothing more than the slight time killer it is-Tension manages to be more entertaining than some of Hollywood's grander products...
...carpetbagger-a point which he met in his broadcast with a time-honored political cliche: "I congratulate those of you who, like my sons and daughter, had the foresight to be born here. The rest of us, three out of every five Californians, have had at least the merit of choosing wisely...
...preponderance of baseball players. No less than ten of the athletes discussed are ball players, and come of them, like Hegan and Elliott, just don't merit the attention. Hegan is not a great catcher--he can't hit; Elliott is a mediocre third baseman; and men like Sain and Stephens are dubious choices. Mize, of course, should have been written up many years ago. He belongs to an older school of baseball players...