Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, whether or not one finds merit in Pollock's paintings is immaterial. His works remain as symbols of man's struggle against conformity, complacency, bigotry and methodism. He demonstrated that man's free spirit is more valuable than anything else he possesses...
...Bonnie, and a small group of Navy and Atomic Energy Commission brasshats formed up before 75 newsmen in the White House conference room. (Not invited and thus snubbed: A-Sub Pioneer Rickover, whose prickly personality is still anathema to some Navy brass.) There the President pinned the Legion of Merit on Commander Anderson, awarded the first Presidential Unit Citation ever given in peacetime to SSN 571-U.S.S. Nautilus...
...gestures--will be cleared up in subsequent performances. Evidently most of rehearsal time was spent on mastering of the English accents, which were indeed mastered. A little more time should suffice to remove the obvious mistakes, so that a viewer may consider the play itself, and then judge the merit of the director's additions, among them a conclusion taken not from the play, but from Shaw's epilogue...
...casualty of World War II. He saw action in North Africa and Italy as an Armored Force officer, wound up the war as a combat liaison officer (lieutenant colonel) between U.S. and French forces in Germany. He came back with six battle stars, the Legion of Merit, a Bronze Star for performance under enemy fire in Italy, and a permanently changed mind about the U.S.'s role in the world. Back in the Senate after the war, he supported reciprocal trade, foreign aid, the U.N., was one of NATO's staunchest friends...
...curbs are chronically jammed with double-parked cars both big and little-the big ones usually owned by the doctors, the little ones by their patients. Some Harley Streeters haul in as much as $150,000 a year from private fees, N.H.S. fees as hospital consultants, and government-paid "merit money" for doctors with special skills and experience. Most make...