Word: performed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missed. Bridegroom Anthorpe, in a long leopard skin, gave up in disgust and returned to his dressing room. Not for another hour did Anthorpe confront his bride. At an open-air altar, flanked by the mayors of nearby cities and other distinguished guests, the Bishop of Grahamstown tried to perform the Anglican marriage ceremony. But a gaggle of more than 70 camera-bearing whites crowded the honored guests off their chairs, knocked over the Communion wine, tore the altar backcloth, left empty Coca-Cola bottles on the altar-cloth. Above the altar, someone raised a huge billboard exhorting all present...
...been Western strategy to talk about what deeds the Communists must perform to be entitled to a Big Four conference, all the while avoiding any hard thought about what might be said or done at such a meeting. The hard fact is that, in the year 1953, no Western statesman, and certainly no U.S. President, can make any secret swap with the Russians without severe public scrutiny: Potsdam and Yalta, the wartime era of heady bargaining and private mapmaking, are past...
...next few years. Sponsored by the University of Houston and the Houston Independent School District, station KUHT was built at a cost of $250,000, is planned to operate on a maximum annual budget of $150,000. For reasons both of economy and experience, music students will perform the music, art students will work on the sets, photographic students will operate the cameras. Aiming ultimately at 40 hours of transmission a week, KUHT's programs will range from courses in psychology to "Electricity in the Home." Said Dr. Walter Kemmerer, who brought the educational TV dream to reality...
...display began in 1947 when a left-wing group among the 34,000 members of Local 1031 threatened to take over at union meetings because the attendance was so small. Darling met the challenge by importing topflight entertainers, e.g., Jimmy Durante. Eddie Cantor, Jack Carson, and Sophie Tucker, to perform at meetings, soon had the 3,500-seat auditorium filled to overflowing. The union now spends $10,000 a month on show's, which include its own chorus of union girls, "the 1031 Dancing Darlings." The leftists haven't had a chance since...
Communion. There remained one more duty for Elizabeth II to perform: to receive the Lord's Supper. The liturgy of the Holy Communion was said as the Archbishop led the Queen to the Communion rail. Kneeling, she removed her Crown and offered the oblation which custom demands of monarchs: "An ingot or wedge of gold, of a pound weight," and "a pall or altar cloth." Philip, her husband, stepped to her side, and while the choir sang the hymn, All People That on Earth Do Dwell, man & wife received the bread and wine. Together, they led the prayer...