Word: perform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist East Europe, commissars and cops do it. In Rome and Madrid, moppets in dancing class do it. Frenchmen perform the ritual with sinuous grace, Spaniards smackingly, Germans with a click of the heels. However widely their techniques may vary, Europeans from Barcelona to Bialystok in recent years have taken to hand kissing with fervor and frequency unmatched in their history. After World War II, the custom seemed in decline. But today, men of virtually every class and calling on the Continent dive for distaff knuckles as assiduously, if not always so expertly, as do the courtiers in a Lehar...
...posts until they finally fell down. Every evening, outside Jack the Barber's one-chair barbershop on Bunker Hill Street, scores of youngsters gather to ogle the neighborhood heroes, talking football inside. They wheedle and whine until Star Townie Halfback Nippy Nolan agrees-as he always does-to perform the stunt for which he is famous all over Charlestown. Crouching low taking a deep breath, he leaps up and cracks his head against Jack the Barber's ceiling just as hard as he can. Says Nippy: "I just love contact, I guess...
...apes want to study the mating habits of humans, Mérou winds up sharing a cell with Nova, a delectable dish who looks like Brigitte Bardot but who troubles Mérou because her eyes show no sign of human intelligence. Mérou at first refuses to perform connubially for the apes. But when Nova is put in the cell opposite with another strapping human male, he finds himself clawing at the bars like an animal. The apes, reassured by this return to "human" behavior, restore Nova to him. "I must now admit," Mérou then relates...
...much at this one does upon the support of the populace. To win a military victory would require, in effect, that America wage war on South Vietnam and whoever might come to her assistance. If this is the requirement for military success in South Vietnam, a free election would perform the very valuable service of informing America of this sobering fact...
From all reports the Quakers are no better this season. The only thing Penn's information director could write about in his press release was the punting of sophomore tailback Bruce Molloy, who has to perform his specialty quite often. With senior John Owens on the injured list, Molloy and senior Don, Challis will share the tailback...