Word: perform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some point, in some way, the President passed through his period of personal crisis. He decided that words could be effective only when backed by the plain willingness to perform deeds. "We do not want to fight," he told the U.S., "but we have fought before. We cannot and will not permit the Communists to drive us out of Berlin, either gradually or by force...
...model. When she did in the early days, she found that she was so afraid of hurting the model's feelings that the truth was never there. Instead, she works from memory, using oil so thinned by turpentine that her canvases seem almost fluid. Her blurred edges perform a double duty. They not only make the figure seem able to move, but they also bathe it in the timeless haze of things seen long ago and never forgotten...
Distance standout Ed Hamlin is sitting out the meet because of a minor tendon injury sustained in cross-country running. He and weight men Doten and Bailey may perform for "good fun," though not officially competing...
Trained in a Moscow spy school for five years, Stachinsky showed up in Munich with a West German passport and an ingeniously designed murder weapon. Though his primary target was Bandera, the Soviets ordered him to perform a trial run on another Ukrainian Nationalist, Writer Lev Rebel. The weapon worked perfectly; the verdict was that Rebel's death was caused by a heart attack. Thus the stage was set for Bandera. As the Ukrainian leader hurried up the stairs of his apartment building one afternoon, Stachinsky stepped out of the shadows to meet him. The agent was wearing...
...will replace the Computation Conservatory present Univac I, which Oettinger described yesterday as obselete. The new machine will have a memory bank 32 times as large as the Univac I's, and will perform operations times as fast...