Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Letters of protest [Dec. 16] against the program at Johns Hopkins Hospital to perform this sex-reassignment surgery are largely emotional reactions that have nothing to do with science or with reality...
Attwood and Goodwin continued to perform minor incisions and excisions for the next three days. At midweek, they met in Rifkind's Madison Avenue offices to thrash out a final understanding. For 71 hours, eleven participants painstakingly examined every word of a four-page draft agreement. What held things up, as one of them acidly put it, was the fact that Bobby Kennedy was off skiing in Idaho, where he narrowly escaped injury in a bad fall, and had to be consulted by telephone on every point at his "Sun Valley command post...
...even hinted that West Germany might soon be prepared to ignore the old Hallstein Doctrine and grant diplomatic recognition to the Eastern countries. "In the past, Germany served as the bridge between Western and Eastern Europe," said Kiesinger. "We should like to perform that role again...
Minimizing Discomfort. According to the Seattle scientists, space-flight wastes will be processed in a blender, then stored in convenient tanks until needed for fuel to perform orbital changes, mid-course corrections, retrorocket firing and other maneuvers. Blending and transfer of MONEX W will be handled automatically "to minimize psychological discomfort"-as Rocket Research delicately phrases...
...true that cadets still must perform push-ups-but no longer over a bayonet; the yearly dose of close-order drill has been slashed by 70 per cent. Gone are the interminable handson-heels "duck walks" that once sent Douglas MacArthur to a hospital. Forbidden, too, are such hazing tortures as "shower formation," in which plebes braced at attention until perspiration soaked their bathrobes. Instead of requiring the traditional gibberish reply to the upperclassman's question, "How is the cow?"* a plebe may be ordered at dinner to deliver a ten-minute lecture on Viet...