Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Loosening Loyalties. The phenomenon of the unhappy voter can be exaggerated. The genuinely disenchanted and disaffected are probably a minority, and a fragmented one at that. Vast numbers of Americans, by contrast, see more merit in pleas for law and order than in cries for change. They would be happier with a candidate who symbolizes stability and the known than one who stands for radical change and the unknown. But it is a minority, and particularly a progressive, vocal minority, that often sets the tone of the times. The articulate Americans who are seeking new paths and new personalities have...
...play itself and its current production aside, there are two further matters that may be of interest. it is well known that Shaw was fond of supplying prose prefaces to his plays. Even though Androcles was a short play aimed at children, Shaw considered it important enough to merit the longest preface he ever wrote, running to a hundred pages...
...live above the crisis for as long as possible. When the President did proclaim his intention to stand fast in the dramatic speech that brought a beginning of order, he singled out Pompidou's heroic efforts: "I will not change the Premier, whose worth, whose steadfastness, whose capacities merit the homage of everyone...
...result of a reform passed by Harold Macmillan's Conservative government in 1958, there are now 143 life peers ennobled for merit whose titles will die with them. One likely feature of Wilson's bill: hereditary dukes and barons will be allowed to keep their titles and pass them on to their heirs, but only men and women elevated for distinguished service will be able to vote in the House of Lords...
...several times by boat and parachute into enemy-occupied Yugoslavia, where he served as his father's personal envoy to Marshal Tito's partisan bands-a service that made him a Member of the Order of the British Empire, the country's oft-awarded distinction for merit...