Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Discussing the Little Rock dispute, Browne said President Eisenhower's position that Governor Faubus was a cause of the violence "has some merit." The Arkansas trouble, he added, was a case in which "renegade elements came in and caused the trouble with little resistance from the moderates...
...rimmed service plates emblazoned with the President's seal. After dinner (chilled pineapple, cream of almond soup, broiled fillet of English sole, roast Long Island duckling, frozen Nesselrode cream with brandied sauce) the President of the U.S., wearing the ribbon and medal of Britain's Order of Merit, rose to toast the Queen. "There have been a few times in my life," said Dwight Eisenhower, "when I have wished that the gift of eloquence might have been conferred upon me. This evening is one of those times . . . Each of us would like to say what we know...
...gain control of the central administration." If such a man becomes boss, there soon develops "an actual competition in stupidity, people pretending to be even more brainless than they are." The only cure for such a situation, according to Parkinson, is the old Trojan Horse ploy: "An individual of merit penetrates the outer defenses . . . babbling about golf and giggling feebly, losing documents and forgetting names . . . Only when he has reached high rank does he suddenly throw off the mask . . . With shrill screams of dismay the high executives find ability right there in the midst of them...
...eyes and a raucous manner. Philip spent his earliest years in a Paris crowded to the rafters with the relics of outmoded monarchies. Years later, as a dashing young British naval lieutenant in Mel bourne. Australia, he described himself good-humoredly as "a discredited Balkan prince of no particular merit or distinction." But as a small boy. the little Prince deeply resented the background that made him different from other people. Once when an-old friend of the family introduced him to a stranger as "Prince Philip, the grandson of a King of Greece," the proud four-year-old stormed...
...himself, are the outstanding secondary schools in the U.S. that would serve as models? Since no one seemed able to give him a satisfactory answer, he drew up a list of his own: those schools that in the last two years produced 20 or more finalists in the National Merit Scholarship race. Not a complete criterion, Marschner admitted, but "far better than nothing." Then he wrote to the principals to find out what makes a good school good...