Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beleaguered fortress; those on the inside are trying to get out, and those on the outside are trying to get in." In her new book, Novelist Martha (The Trouble I've Seen) Gellhorn takes the reader on a skillfully guided tour of the fortress; it is her special merit that she observes the outside as well as the inside (including some rarely seen rooms), with equal sensibility. Two by Two contains four studies of the married state, each taking its title from a vow in the marriage service...
With such alert, far-ranging news coverage and a thoughtful, middle-of-the-road Republican editorial page, the morning Post ("written and edited to merit your confidence") has won 65-statewide and national journalistic awards in the past five years, staked out a reputation as the Southwest's most readable daily. It has also seized the rank of Houston's No. I paper from the staunchly segregationist evening Chronicle, which in its dyspeptic distrust of Eisenhower Republicanism, the U.N., and U.S. allies often sounds like an oil-belt echo of the Chicago Tribune...
Unfortunately, present unemployment compensation programs are generally ineffective. Payments are low and vary considerably between the states; eligibility time is limited, and the system of merit rating is at best an evil thing...
...sitting a couple of silent boys with slanted eyes and yellow skin, from here the man who was academically first in the class leaving in discouragement to join Prospect, and here, recurring nearly two times out of every three, Israel's immemorial face is seen; the class has sixteen Merit Scholars, ten were in trouble on Thursday night, and five of them, too, are here...
...overriding merit of this book is a reminder to the reader-a reminder that capitalism is a revolutionary force in human affairs offering still unplumbed promise for the future...