Word: performed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These industries are responsible for educating and enlightening the electorate, a responsibility which cannot be shirked. Neither can it be exploited by the financial inequalities of the major political parties. Congress must perform a constructive role in regulating the exercise of this necessary duty...
...suit), his white Corvette, his travels around the world with accommodations in the best hotels. But he has earned them all: he understands 500 words, can count his fingers, play the piano, spank himself, do cartwheels, raise his arms when he wants to be taken to the bathroom, and perform numerous other monkeyshines, including raising TV ratings. He is also the only TV personality on earth who has been denounced in the House of Commons ("an insult to the Queen"), attacked in Izvestia ("a symbol of the American way of life") and defended by the American Society for the Prevention...
...heavier. The car weight per horsepower, which fell from 33 Ibs. to 15 Ibs. between 1946 and 1957, will hit a low of 12 Ibs. in '61. Since this "is the range of the present Corvette and Thunderbird sports cars, the average car of 1961 may perform as well as today's sports...
...Wilson will perform two more such operations, then wait six months to observe results before recommending wide adoption of the Gorman joint. But he has high hopes for it. Moving parts are metal against metal, lubricated by body fluids, so no foreign material is in moving contact with human tissue (which has caused trouble in some earlier plastic and metal restorations). Made of Stellite (a chromium-cobalt alloy), the joint should outlast the life of the recipient, with no corrosion...
...excellent production of Macbeth is marred slightly by a very understandable trait: invention. Since next to Hamlet, Macbeth contains the largest number of familiar episodes and speeches, any company that approaches it is challenged constantly, and most feel the need to perform each moment better than ever before. Or, at least, differently. Although the Old Vic creation is always interesting, it is occasionally a bit obvious, and calls unwanted attention to details by superfluous inventiveness...