Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Manolete was gored last July, some of the crowds began to turn from their idol towards Dominguin. Last week, at Linares, after watching Dominguín. perform brilliantly, Manolete made a supreme attempt to show his mastery...
...Victoria; reportedly of acute tonsilitis and a heart ailment; in Frankfurt an der Oder, Soviet zone of Germany. Soon after her death, rumors spread that more than $500,000 worth of the Princess' crown jewels had been stolen. Suspicious U.S. Army authorities asked the apparently uninquisitive Russians to perform an autopsy (to find out if someone had put something in Hermine's tea), then decided to drop the investigation: "It is definitely a case for the German authorities . . . looks like a dizzy merry-go-round of family intrigue...
...effectuating the second part of this resolution the ad hoc committee could perform a desirable service. Although it is not noted for its pliability, the University might abandon tradition if urged by a large number of students and organizations. But the third part of the resolution makes the motives of those who passed it extremely suspect. They appear to be inordinately concerned with getting their names or the names of organizations to which they may belong associated with that of Mr. Wallace. There was no question of the competence of AVC to handle the details of the Wallace visit...
Solemn Ceremony. But there was still time left for the Lords to perform a fateful function. In their chamber, the Royal Assent was solemnly given to the Indian Independence Bill. In the presence of five royal commissioners (in cocked hats and scarlet robes with ermine and sable-edged capes), the clerk of the Parliament pronounced: "Le Roy Le veutl" (the king wills it). With these words, Britain had abandoned the greatest single base of her power. The subcontinent which Robert Clive's military mastery and Benjamin Disraeli's diplomatic craft had made the cornerstone of empire...
...Sauerbruch has been known to perform three operations at once: his assistants cut open the patients and Sauerbruch moved from table to table to make the crucial excisions. He invariably operates barehanded. Rubber gloves, he says, destroy the delicate feel of his work. A Sauerbruch operation is a continuous bellow; he shouts at his assistants, shouts for his instruments. Once, irked by a clumsy assistant, he slashed the fellow with his scalpel to teach him a lesson...