Word: performances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason for the wide difference between the nation's best and the nation's average, said Dr. Moyer, lies in the difficulty of the operation. It takes a highly skilled surgical team to perform this difficult task, and there are few such teams available. To train 100 specialized teams, Dr. Moyer conceded, would be an immense job. But it might save 30,000 to 38,000 stomach cancer victims each year...
...Horne is probably the only person capable of singing "Stormy Weather" in a movie scene, while a large, crystalline tear courses down her right cheek--and get away with it. She manages to make the schmalz inherent in the scene seem plausible. That the script calls upon her to perform such a feat, and that she does it, present a good summary of quality of both script and performers...
Council then gave its informal approval to an executive board decision to eliminate its usual meeting to admonish library offenders. Letters will hereafter be sent to those who infringe library rules warning then that they must perform special duties at the library and telling them the hours they must work...
...country where it's nobody's damned business what magazines anyone reads, what he thinks, whom he has cocktails with . . . where no college-trained flatfeet collect memoranda about us," wrote DeVoto. " . . . If it is my duty as citizen to tell what I know about someone, I will perform that duty under subpoena ... I will not discuss anyone in private with any government investigator...
Mighty in the Mountains. So adapted, Andean man can perform amazing quantities of work at altitudes where non-adapted lowlanders fall gasping and retching. The somber-eyed, long-exploited descendant of the Incas is in fact a sort of superman. "After eight hours' hard work in mines at more than 16,000 feet above sea level," says Dr. Monge, "his idea of relaxation is a soccer match in which he sometimes plays barefooted...