Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scarcely succeed without many Western attitudes. Modern industry requires a measure of individual initiative, self-reliance, risk-taking. It requires a belief in progress, in the reality of the material world. Instead of a fixed order, it needs a fluid system in which people can rise through merit. It does not necessarily require democracy, although Edwin Reischauer, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, points out that it must have literacy and mass communication-which usually lead people to demand more participation in their government...
...First, Buddhist monks do not beg for their food. They are offered it willingly and graciously by people who, in so doing, gain "merit" to augment their spiritual lives. Second, Udorn, Ubon and the parts of Bangkok that are neon-lit especially to indulge U.S. servicemen are to many other peoples an indictment of Western civilization. American-style nightclubs, restaurants and bowling alleys tend to disrupt longestablished, often exquisitely delicate patterns of life. For this we will increasingly be asked to answer. Third, the insect sauce is delicious with roast chicken...
...names, at least, the Boy Scouts of America deserve some sort of merit badge. Among the 32 million alumni are Cabinet Members Orville Freeman and Stewart Udall, Actors James Stewart and Henry Fonda. Vice President Hubert Humphrey and U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg rose from tenderfoot; so did the latest Gemini spacemen, Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and General William Westmoreland are old Eagle Scouts, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk was once knot-tying champion of the Atlanta Council...
...Sale Happiness. To merit an award, an injury must be reported to the police or result in criminal proceedings, and be serious enough to call for damage payments of at least $140. There is no maximum. Not eligible for benefits: victims living in the assailant's household, auto victims (unless the car was used as a weapon), children born of sexual offenses, and claimants for "loss of expectation of happiness...
...Miller, 18, whose hair infringes upon his shirt but whose behavior somehow had not been adversely affected. Alan drew straight A's his entire junior year, missed only one day of school in three years, was never a disciplinary problem, and won Unionville High's only National Merit Scholarship...