Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performance game. In their search for new favorites with which to play, they have seized on Natomas as an available game and made a virtue of the uncertainty about the company's oil prospects. To speculators, says Lucien Hooper of W. E. Hutton & Co., Natomas' merit is precisely that "no one can tell what it is worth...
...consequence anywhere in the country without a decent concert hall no one can explain. Most of us are tired of quarters for violin, cello, piano and street noises and tired of wiping out neighbors' sweat off our knees. It is a disgrace to force any musicians of merit to attempt to perform in the decrepit fire trap...
...mood and plaint to their French-Canadian cousins in Quebec. Sandra Burton observed the importation of "green-card" nonunion workers from Mexico and covered the climax of a 100-mile march between El Centro and Calexico, in which, she reports, the heat hit 120° and blisters "were like merit badges." At the end, when Union Leader Cesar Chavez began to speak, she thought that she had obtained a perfect worm's-eye view amid the swarming crowd by squirming under the flatbed truck that served as a podium-until Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough, standing barefoot a few yards...
Campaigning for his creation, Prime Minister Ian Smith declared that "it virtually enshrines white supremacy, but it does it on merit, which no one can undermine." That view was disputed by a former Prime Minister, Sir Roy Welensky. He worried that "it will lead to eventual confrontation. It is a departure from representation based on merit to straight racial representation...
Admitting that it was too early to judge the merit of the new mood, Pusey offered the seniors "a few brief remarks" on their role as social reformers...