Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only hindrance on the government is a requirement that, in cases of great importance, the Storting itself must initiate the leveling duties, but even this safeguard is cold comfort. For it is up to the government in the first place to decide which cases merit the Storting's attention, and in the second place the government can go right ahead without the Storting if it decides that a wait is dangerous. Moreover, businessmen ordered to pay these special levies have no recourse...
...counterparts behind the Iron Curtain for slanting news. In so doing, they based their criticism on the standards of a free press--reporting facts accurately, regardless of public or governmental pressures, with opinion confined to the editorial page. Acceptance of this thesis, however, carries with it a responsibility to merit the faith of those who accept newspaper coverage as accurate. By squeezing the facts of the Oatis case into a preconceived stereotype, the press has, in this instance, betrayed its trust...
...good but also the bad sense of the word. It often captures the rakish, even the Lautrec-ish animation of Paris in the '905, but it has often, too, the feeble plotting and labored prattle of memory-book musicomedy. Actually a number of things in it merit high praise, but these do not include such trifles as the music, the lyrics or the libretto...
...good many knowing art lovers agree with the old master, a fact that was proved recently when the American Academy of Arts & Letters announced a handsome present for Ivan Mestrovic in his 70th year: the academy's Award of Merit and a $1,000 prize as an outstanding U.S. sculptor. They want him to come to Manhattan later this month and pick it up-if he can bear to put down his busy chisel for that long...
...Communists or the government might take it away. Thus Bhoomidan-yagna was born, in bloody Telingana. Even the Nizam of Hyderabad, reputed one of the richest and most miserly men in the world, gave some land, though neither the Nizam nor Bhave would say how much (the merit acquired by giving is lost by boasting of it). Some 35,000 acres were collected and reassigned to the most destitute. Gradually the revolt and the terror died down...