Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most State Department experts think that the moratorium, as a gag on free discussion, has lost too much favor with a General Assembly now swollen to 99 members, with most of the new nations opposed to the idea. The DOS planners would prefer to conduct open arguments on the merit of Red China's admission-and seek to have the question classified as an "important" matter, requiring a two-thirds majority vote...
...four soldiers, two merit praise: Arthur Amsie's Polly Baker, growly, cigar-chomping, and shrewd, and Paul Marstow's (where would this summer's company have been without him?) Jeriah in the unfortunate temple robber betrayed by his mates. Tom Griffin is another one of the four; someday, perhaps, I will be able to understand what he is saying...
Crusader Hiss (a third cousin of Alger) went on to help Sarasota start the state's first program for gifted children and its first merit pay system for teachers, then threw himself into Sarasota's campaign for a college. It failed when the new Florida Presbyterian College went to St. Petersburg and Tampa got the state-run University of South Florida. But the Congregationalists' Board of Home Missions listened. With well-heeled Sarasota willing and able to raise $4,000,000, the Congregationalists have promised $600,000 over ten years, plus expert help-and a guarantee...
Military measures have no merit in themselves. They are only tools of a broader strategy in a cold...
Paradoxically, the first casualties are likely to occur in the morning lineup, where the New York press shows greatest strength. The four morning papers not only vastly outcirculate the three evening dailies (3,933,000 to 1,459,000), but hold a monopoly on merit. The Times...