Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inauguration speech, Betancourt promised that no Communists would be allowed in his government. He held the military to 10% of Venezuela's budget, yet still managed to buy new arms and jet trainers. Officers were promoted on merit, not a dictator's whim. Military personnel were extended easy credit for off-post housing. On trips to the backlands, Betancourt called first on local garrisons. He visited army engineers on remote road-building projects, dropped in for Christmas caroling with the troops, and always had time for a little brass polishing at regimental anniversary celebrations...
...Steirman claims that both are in the black. In 1961, he resurrected Blue Book, a man's magazine dropped by McCall Corp. five years earlier as a bad job. Steirman's Bluebook for Men has a newsstand sale of only 150,000 and no detectable merit, but it is breaking even...
Among the surfeit of phonograph records that were put on the market last year, a few merit special attention. An even smaller number seem especially appropriate as Christmas gifts of music. A selective list of the year's best: Beethoven...
When every national spokesman looks to the colleges as training grounds for specialists, and when the National Merit Scholarship Corporation proclaims that, "Talent is our most important national resource," General Education is a less popular rallying point. Within a community of scholars, it is difficult to say that scholarship is not sufficient training for a citizen of a free country, or to remind the Faculty of Conant's dictum that a liberal education is not necessarily a general education. It is not always easy to remember that "non-departmental" and "General Education" are imperfect synonyms...
...restore "to our first national order the prestige it should have," De Gaulle's government last week formally established a second-ranking decoration known as the Order of Merit. Hence forth, the Legion of Honor will be awarded only for "eminent service." Merely "distinguished service" will be rewarded with the new Order of Merit, whose lapel ribbons and rosettes will look like the Legion's, except that the color will be blue...