Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anna Russell and Her Little Show was built around an English mimic of various styles of singing and pianoplaying. Diligent, perceptive, unfunny, Actress Russell was like a perfume that had every merit except fragrance...
...Guinea campaign, walked an esti mated 600 miles in forays behind enemy lines in Burma with Merrill's Marauders, rode the first convoy over the Ledo-Burma Road from India to China, dropped into Japanese-held Rangoon with Gurkha paratroops, and was awarded the Legion of Merit by General Douglas MacArthur...
...saboteur of the economy, because instead of just sticking to making goods, he tried to regulate output in order to make more money. Eventually, thought Veblen, the engineers would inherit the world and run it properly. He died on the eve of the Great Depression. Perhaps his greatest merit, as Author Heilbroner makes clear, was that he saw one great truth Marx never saw: the "working class" had no real desire to rebel against the bourgeoisie, but wanted to become more like...
...expected to be arrested by the Gestapo," but Von Papen had done nothing to deserve such a fate, and was scarcely the man to walk open-eyed to his doom. When he got home, Hitler handed him another medal: the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Merit...
...editors should know that federal employees do not establish policy but execute it; and to make career employees the whipping boy because of the size of the budget is not only unfair but wholly unrealistic . . . We are aware that "nobody wants to end or to impair the merit system," but in view of the tenor of the piece as a whole, its derogation of career employees, its repetition of some of the most moth-eaten of the spoilsmen's cliches, such a qualification loses any real meaning or force. Virtually every attack on the merit system in history...