Word: perform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city of the '30s, where she became an actress under the stage name of Blue Apple. It was hardly a step up, since in old China actors and barbers were among the lowest of the low-partly because, like servants, they had to stand to perform their jobs. She was, in any case, only a grade B actress; after she married Mao, he had all of her films destroyed. But that was years later. First, at 19, she married a young Communist underground organizer, who made something of a Marxist, a nationalist and a feminist...
...prestige of the Beanpot and the excitement of playing on the Garden ice in front of a screaming crowd lifts the games above any regular season meeting B.U. coach Jack Kelley had said that for these two games, players perform 10-15 per cent above their ability...
...finished, "a deep voice came on and said, 'Hello, is this our girl?' And I was so silly, I said, 'Who is this, please?' And he said, This is Lyndon.' " The President, she added, then invited her to come to the White House to perform. "And I have, and isn't it all just wonderful...
...metal room divider? Frankly, we don't know what exactly to do." The housewares men scrambled as best they could. Some salesmen did business out of attache cases or in hotel rooms; former White House Chef Rene Verdon, who was supposed to perform at McCormick Place for the Scovill Manufacturing Co., whipped up gazpacho and apricot mousse in a suite at the Drake Hotel...
Some state leaders have promised that out-of-state applicants be charged more or even be excluded from the state colleges and university to make room for the rising number of California applicants. But this would restrict the university's ability to perform an important function--attracting talented and educated manpower into the state. Freezing faculty salaries or spending all of the regents' special contingency fund would be equally ill-advised...