Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Donnell put his heavy arm on square-jawed Brigadier General Richard H. Carmichael. a wartime flying pal in the Pacific theater (two Distinguished Service Crosses, two Silver Stars, four Legions of Merit, and the Air Medal with three oakleaf clusters). Around the Pentagon, Carmichael was unofficially dubbed "Vice President of the Air Force in charge of Re-enlistment...
...year is 1931. Actress Harris, as Sally, is a café singer of doubtful merit but nothing else about her merits any doubt. She is an amoral Junior Mistress with green fingernail polish, a nymph in sheet's clothing. She drinks Prairie Oysters (one raw egg, one dash Worcestershire sauce) for breakfast, stirs her gin with vast quantities of sentimentality. Down and out, Sally meets young Christopher Isherwood, a struggling author. He offers to share his apartment with her. In gratitude, she asks: "Shall we have a drink first, or shall we go right to bed?" But Isherwood...
...tillon, the Negroes, and especially the évoluants or educated ones, must learn to get along with the whites. "The évoluants sin through pride. And there is no more serious-and may I add -revolting form of pride than that cultivated by those who, having but little merit and suffering from their own inadequacy, take on the attitude of martyrs. There is no more stupid attitude than to blame every difficulty which is merely the result, of life itself on the European authority...
...week's TV dramas were thin, talky and without dramatic zing, but they at least had the merit of trying to get away from the usual empty-headed TV plots and make a few comments about life and the pursuit of happiness. The depressing fact was that when the comment was not confused, it was trite...
Died. Dr. Wendell M. Latimer, 62, professor of chemistry at the University of California, onetime (1943-47) director of the Manhattan Project, winner (in 1948) of a Presidential Certificate of Merit for his wartime contribution to the development of the atomic bomb; of a heart attack; in Oakland, Calif...