Word: performed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about two weeks, she maintained hope that he would be back to normal. Then for about two weeks after that, she hoped he would live. And then, by the first week in May, he was very close to brain death. There was only enough of him left to perform very simple motor functions. At that point all of us realized that it would actually be much better for him if he were to die. We all came to expect it, because he was down to about ninety pounds...
Others suggested that women perform better than men academically because they mature earlier and tend to opt for concentrations in the humanities which generally award higher grades than the traditionally male-dominated concentrations such as math and the sciences...
...There is a reasonable chance that it's a hoax," Beckwith said, but added that scientists may be able to perform successfully this procedure in the near future...
...playing and resulted in new sounds, new progressions, and new rhythms. Grapelli's swinging, raggy violin worked well with Reinhardt's rhythmic guitar style. The two were a smash hit throughout Europe. They played Le Hot Club together for years before either of them came to this country to perform...
...TENDENCY to perform an orchestral work as if it were simply a group of arbitrary, colorless sounds is so prevalent--particularly among non-professional orchestras--that one should be especially thankful when all the elements of dynamics, color and suggestive language mesh. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's performance Saturday night, far from being methodical or colorless, succeeded in conveying all the evocative moods and imaginative instrumentation of Debussy, Saint-Saens and Dvorak...