Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little stations all over the country, with their news broadcasts sponsored by the local advertisers, perform almost criminally...
...seen told him to replace Japanese officials immediately. Hodge retained the Japs, including the notorious General Nobuyuki Abe, ex-Governor of Korea, whom he thanked publicly for making the U.S. occupation "simple and easy." Hodge also kept the Japanese police, holding that Koreans were "too excited" to perform police duty and that they were "the same breed of cat as the Japanese." Koreans roared and rioted (Japanese soldiers machine-gunned one throng, killed two, wounded...
...heels of a non-comradely ruling that plain Russian soldiers must no longer use officers' clubs, the Soviet Government cushioned the lives of Red Army officers with some more line new decrees. Henceforth Soviet officers will get: 1) exemption from all taxes; 2) permanent orderlies to perform all tedious tasks; 3) extra food (some of it free...
...stopped at the great center doorway of the Parliament Building and out stepped Alexander Frederick Augustus William Alfred George Cambridge, first Earl of Athlone, and his wife, the Princess Alice. Athlone. for five years the representative in Canada of his nephew George VI, was on his way to perform for the last time the most impressive of a Canadian Governor General's functions-the formal opening of a session of Parliament...
...Johns Hopkins, keen, blue-eyed Dr. Young soon developed the virtuosity he had lacked in San Antonio. He devised many new operations, many new instruments to perform them with. Mortality in operations for removal of the prostate gland was 20% when he began. His record in 3,000 operations: 3%. He was famed for: 1) his part in developing Mercurochrome as a bloodstream disinfectant (now superseded by sulfa drugs and penicillin); 2) a radical operation for cancer of the prostate; 3) a method of removing the prostate through the urinary outlet; 4) operations which made many a pseudohermaphrodite nearly normal...