Word: performer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...variety of reasons, Crimson thinclads didn't perform as expected and the one- or two-point meet became a Dartmouth runaway...
...last January as the first member of either group to fly in space. Ellison Onizuka was a mission specialist on last year's classified military flight of Discovery, but he was perhaps most appreciated among colleagues for his gentle, unassuming manner. Describing one of the tasks he was to perform on Challenger, to film Halley's comet with a hand-held camera, he remarked with typical understatement, "I'll be looking at Halley's comet. They tell me I'll have one of the best views around...
...condition as Lewis', known to doctors as familial hypercholesterolemia, or FH. In Moscow, eminent Soviet Cardiologist Yevgeni Chazov is treating another ten FH patients, working closely with the Rogosin Institute in an unusual Soviet-American collaboration. Both overseas groups report that their patients' angina has decreased and that they perform better on stress tests...
...They perform on street corners in Amsterdam, subways in the south of France, Puerto Rican nightclubs, restaurants in Bermuda, and Harvard's Sanders Theater. With solo-quality voices, they sing swing tunes, jazz, blues Motown, spirituals...
Departing from his prepared text, King said that if elected he would initiate a program requiring high school graduates to perform two years of public service, and guaranteeing them four years of college education afterwards. He did not elaborate on this proposal, but repeatedly praised as a model the "G.I. Bill," which sent World War II veterans to college at government expense...