Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sept. 6, within the three-minute timing tolerance that orders prescribed, the rockets zoomed off, beautifully vertical. Then, mission accomplished, Task Force 88 steamed smartly into Rio for a well-deserved five-day spell ashore. To Admiral Mustin and Captain Gralla, the Navy decided to award the Legion of Merit. And from Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke came a radio message for all hands: "A most hearty well-done" for a splendidly fulfilled pioneering task...
Since the National Merit Scholarship Corporation will award 300 fewer scholarships than last year, a corresponding decrease in the number of scholarship winners attending the College is expected. Glimp expressed hope, however, that funds will be provided by the College to maintain the present number of students receiving...
...reach Broadway. It is also the first Broadway play in decades directed by a Negro (Lloyd Richards), and all but one member of its cast are Negroes. All this would be the small talk of theatrical statistics if Raisin in the Sun were not a work of genuine dramatic merit. Playwright Hansberry, 28, has brought to her well-crafted play the gifts of intelligence, honesty and humor, a saving absence of racial partisanship, and a moving ability to use the language of the heart...
...artistic and highly profitable efforts to popularize the hip-rolling ethnic dances of the Caribbean, Haiti awarded Negro Dancer Katherine Dunham the Order of Honor and Merit with the rank of commander. Adding to the general joy, the mayor of Port-au-Prince made Dancer Dunham an honorary citizen...
...Under a bill before Parliament since 1955, introduced by Author and Labor M.P. Roy Jenkins, the law would be modified to allow prosecution only if a book as a whole, rather than in individual passages, is judged obscene, would also allow the defense to summon expert witnesses on literary merit...