Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occasion seemed important enough to merit another MacArthur visit to the front. On a bitterly cold but sunny morning, three hours after his divisions jumped off, MacArthur's Constellation, the SCAP, landed on Sinanju's bumpy airfield. Welcomed by a cluster of his top brass, the general climbed into a jeep and pulled the hood of his pile-lined parka over his head. In the back seat rode the Eighth Army's Lieut. General Walton Walker...
...assisted greatly in the victory, rode twelve-year-old Paleface, on loan to him from Mr. and Mrs. H. J. O'Connell of Montreal. On a visit to the O'Connells last summer, McCashin took a fancy to the animal, rode him, was convinced of his merit. He took him to his Pluckemin home for further training, successfully put him through eliminations to pick the U.S. team, and the grueling three-day competition...
Italy's postwar constitution neither approved nor forbade titles. Last December, however, the government introduced a bill instituting a new Order of Knighthood for Merit under the Italian Republic. "Ridiculous and insignificant," scoffed 82-year-old ex-Premier Francesco Nitti when the bill reached the Senate floor last week; but Nitti, it was pointed out, could afford to be disapproving-he already had 43 orders and decorations. The bill passed two-to-one in favor of more titles...
...Barry was the proudest and least able of the three. "The principal merit of painting," he once wrote, "is its address to the mind." Because he continually asserted his conviction that most other British painters were mindless, they expelled him from the Royal Academy. They also took great satisfaction in sneering at his half-mystical allegories and his absurd Death of General Wolfe (in which all the figures were shown classically nude...
Even the aspiring Yalie may not know the answer, but he soon finds out. He is going to Yale to become a Success. His undergraduate life is a four-year push to become a "wheel," to be socially acceptable, to approximate that archtype of merit, the Yale Man. Not that the Administration nurse this tradition: president and deans admit ruefully that Yale is a college of come-outers and go-getters and deplores the philosophy of "success for the sake of success." But the tradition is still there. A recent study of Yale society concluded, "Because the definition of success...