Word: warrantable
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...English department has but one defense for this dearth: there are not enough students interested in courses dealing with single writers to warrant giving them every year. This is irrelevant, however. It does not excuse the gaping lapse in historical continuity so evident in American Literature's meager offerings...
...going to go down to Florida and finally realize that the New York Yankees are the best team in the American League. Besides making a great deal of money in side bets the following fall, that young man--most old-timers are by now far too prejudiced--will warrant a very large promotion...
...blunders, they will eventually get what they want. This is a half-truth, at best. In the past year the U.S. and its allies have shown dangerous weakness and confusion, and the Russians have made some gains, but the Kremlin may feel that they are not big enough to warrant the economic, political and military expenditures made. Russia, in fact, faces a kind of international deadlock. The area in which it can now move ahead much farther without risking an all-out war has grown relatively small. But, as General Eisenhower said last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) : "Tyranny must feed...
...Phony! The first mudpie was hurled by an old friend of the family, Dorothy Wesley Bernie, widow of Ben ("The Old Maestro") Bernie and matron of honor at the Rose wedding 13 years ago. In California she filed a suit for criminal libel against Billy, and swore out a warrant for his arrest if he ever set foot in the state. Her charge: Rose was passing around an affidavit from her onetime Negro maid, Alberta Jones, that contained obscene, "horrible lies" about sex orgies that supposedly took place in Mrs. Bernie's home and involved her, Eleanor...
...reorganization plan for three months, surprised everyone by recommending a review. It raised the question of whether MoPac's common stock should, after all, be wiped out, agreed with Young that MoPac's earnings had improved enough since the plan was first approved in 1949 to warrant a review by the full commission. Though ICC had not yet made up its mind, railroaders thought that it was sure to follow the board's recommendation...