Word: perform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Light & Hungry. Neither Baeza nor Ycaza is another Arcaro or another Willie Shoemaker-yet. But they are the stars of a band of Latin Americans who are starting to dominate U.S. racing. Hard-pressed to find youngsters who are light enough (maximum: about 114 Ibs.) or hungry enough to perform the mean chores (walking "hots,"' mucking out stalls) expected of budding jockeys, U.S. horsemen more and more are importing riders from south of the border. This season five top U.S. stables-Cain Hoy. Greentree, Bohemia, Fred W. Hooper and Gustave Ring-are employing Latin jockeys. Mexico-bred Milo Valenzuela...
...There is, I mean, no aboriginal stuff or quality of being, contrasted with that of which material objects are made, out of which our thoughts of them are made; but there is a function in experience which thoughts perform, and for the performance of which this quality of being is invoked. That function is knowing. . . . My thesis is that if we start with the supposition that there is only one primal stuff or material in the world, a stuff of which everything is composed, and if we call that stuff 'pure experience,' then knowing can easily be explained...
Hospital Truism. In hospitals all over the U.S., surgeons now make a routine performance of lifesaving procedures so radical that they were almost unimaginable a few years ago. There is hardly a place in the human body that surgeons have not been, hardly an operation too daring for themi to perform; yet the surgical patient can face his ordeal with more confidence than he ever could before. Per haps the proudest measure of the surgeon's success is the built-in assurance of today's hospital truism: "If they can operate, you're lucky...
Surgery's role in treating such cancer is to remove not only the breast containing the malignant tumor but also the lymph nodes that act as reservoirs for cancer cells traveling from the breast to the rest of the body. In most U.S. hospitals, surgeons perform a classical operation that is called a radical mastectomy. They make an elliptical incision, remove the breast and the outer mammary lymph nodes near the armpit and collarbone...
...left hand looked grotesque; she was unable to perform even the simplest of household tasks. Mrs. Roland Cesarini, 49, suffered from an advanced case of rheumatoid arthritis and, although aspirin gave occasional relief, she needed surgery if she was to regain the use of her hand and fingers...