Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confer with the Cabinet and the Military Committee of NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization), dressed in well-creased pinks and OD jacket with a single row of ribbons (the Distinguished Service Medal with three Oak Leaf clusters, the Navy's Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit). Then he was ready for his first public report to the nation...
Until 1750, the men were placed in temporary seniority by the steward when they came to school in August. The following spring, the faculty placed them in permanent rank; up to 1712, pretty much by scholastic merit. Later the placing was done on the basis of social prominence, but the entire custom was eliminated...
...Cassidy has often taken off a performer's hide with such vigor that some victims, including Actor Maurice Evans and Pianist Eugene Istomin, have vowed never to appear in Chicago again. But she has worked even harder to put over shows she liked, e.g., The Glass Menagerie, whose merit she was one of the first to spot...
...judicially announced that he was ready to "leave the legal question in abeyance." Now he would be satisfied to vote on a bill specifically committing such-&-such a number of troops to Europe, he said. Democrats also began to calm down. Georgia's Walter George thought there was merit in Taft's idea...
...Paradise was far from a great novel. It was crude, snobbish, awkward and frequently juvenile. Critic Harry Hansen exclaimed: "My, how that boy Fitzgerald can write!" But an abler critic, Fitzgerald's old Princeton friend, Edmund Wilson, wrote: "It is one of the most illiterate books of any merit ever published .. . full of bogus ideas and faked literary references . . ." Read today, the book's account of youthful behavior seems almost a burlesque...