Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...precinct by precinct, and the result, said government officials, would not be issued until later in the week. As some Communists frankly admitted, this provided an opportunity for a Machiavellian manipulation of the result, in the event that the voters had not been Machiavellian enough to see the peculiar merit of Gomulka. Poland was still a Communist state...
...does not now have equal opportunities, that he is morally and legally entitled to progress more rapidly, and that a full good faith effort" must be made to help him lift his standards. Similarly, Negroes must contribute by changes in their own attitudes, e.g., by realizing that they "must merit and deserve whatever place [they] achieve in a community . . . There must be change, and change usually comes hard . . . Ours is the generation in which great decisions can no longer be passed on to the next. We have a state to build-a South to save-a nation to convince...
This did not mean that these were the ten best shows on TV; indeed, they were by no means a roster of merit. It simply meant that, by one of the systems in TV's way of counting the house, they drew the biggest audiences. By this alone, rating systems such as the Nielsen work the most ruthless tyranny in a nervous industry that looks to its audience for leadership instead of providing its own. As big-time TV enters its second decade, the ratings are more powerful, feared, hated-and needed-than ever before. The sponsor has always...
...frozen continent, few are better fitted by character, inclination and background for the assignment than Siple. Even with Byrd's first expedition he quickly won his explorer's spurs. A 19-year-old whose boyhood in Erie, Pa. had centered around Scouting (he had earned 60 merit badges before joining Byrd), he was jolted but not defeated by the salty, four-letter expletives and the sloppy, earthy habits of his hardbitten shipmates on the way south. Big. strong, self-sufficient, Paul ignored them, won a spot as a regular deckhand, shoveled as much coal, scraped as many barnacles...
...same qualities stood him well at Little America. When no one wanted the job of collecting penguins and seals for the American Museum of Natural His tory, Siple volunteered, even though "I don't have a merit badge in skinning." By the expedition's end he was a proficient if dogged taxidermist. He learned, too, how to train and handle a dog team. Among the theories: never bend down, never fall down, and never excrete near them. For 22 months in 1928-30, as Admiral Byrd recalls it, "Paul did a man's work...