Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When his full record was revealed (last fortnight the A.M.A. Journal printed it with reluctant admiration), his Chico colleagues were dazed. "How he was able to perform all those operations successfully is what has us baffled," murmured one doctor uncomfortably. Said others: "The man's got something besides guts." Phillips piled the nervous strain of imposture atop the nervous strain of surgery which exhausts many accredited surgeons. But so far not one of the scores of patients whom Phillips cut open has complained of the quality of his work...
...results may be unhappy. An Army surgeon may, for example, prefer spinal anesthesia. His anesthetist may be skilled in ether and other gases, but not wholly familiar with the often complicated nerve-blockings he is called upon to perform with the spinal and regional anesthesia. Such disagreement increases the patient's risks (deaths from anesthesia are by no means unknown). Meanwhile, the quality of anesthesia suffers, and the professional anesthetist is reduced to a mere technician...
...They worry about their homes and children. "Women can perform 80% of all the war jobs now engaged in by men," claims Dr. Carey P. McCord, medical director of the Chrysler Corp., "but too many women are being absent from work because they must catch up on their housework...
Radio's Superman must have a greater respect for rationalities than he has in comics or movies. Though he can still whiz through the air or break down a wall with his fist, he can push over no buildings, perform no miracles that sound cannot easily convey. Clayton's transformation from the scoop-seeking reporter, Clark Kent, to the mythical Man of Iron is accomplished by carefully deepening his voice and having all companions faint, while he slips on Superman clothes. Superman's monologues must be cut to a minimum, suspense maintained by worrying listeners...
Fight. Strained, anxious, the Russians still held their morale high. A Soviet writer explained: "There is a point in all Russians beyond which they seem to become oblivious of pain and fatigue. Up to that point, they are stolid and slower to react than most Europeans. Beyond it, they perform feats of endurance far beyond the usual human measure." To survive, the Russians called for feats of endurance from their army and for feats of performance from the Russian workers...