Word: meritably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Helping a country sidestep revolution, building a new nation, promoting world peace--these are large achievements. Few activities of the Peace Corps seem to merit such grandiose description. In the Dominican Republic, volunteers in urban-development projects are organizing neighborhood clinics or helping to obtain piped water for a barrio; those in rural-community development are setting up agrarian leagues and advising on local school construction...
McCullough's ability and experience merit a starting role, but his position as captain requires it. Weiland is a string-puller, not an inspirer or a leader of any kind. By sacrificing his captain, he removed any leadership or unifier that might have benefited his team, and created a disorganization that is not the least of the squad's problems...
...until later, after service in World War II -- during which Howe recevied the Legion of Merit and the Distinguished Service Medal -- and joining the Harvard law faculty, that Howe's work on Holmes enabled him to display the full range of his talents...
...merit of Manchester's account lies not so much in the new details he supplies as in the methodical way in which he reconstructs events. His own exhaustive investigation led him to conclude that the same bullet which passed through President Kennedy's neck also struck Connally-thus making Lee Harvey Oswald the sole assassin. He also narrates a harrowing little episode involving Caroline Kennedy. Fearing that an attempt might be made on the lives of the Kennedy family, a Secret Service agent named Tom Wells picked up Caroline from some friends and started driving her away...
Brandeis denounced yellow-press invasions of "the sacred precincts of private and domestic life." The denunciation contained obvious merit; over the years, 34 states have guaranteed personal privacy in varying degrees. The denunciation also bore the seeds of conflict with the First Amendment guarantee of free dom of the press. Sooner or later, the Supreme Court would obviously have to settle a basic question: To what ex tent does the First Amendment immunize the press from observance of state privacy laws...