Word: performs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have the very distinct impression that the first man in World War II to win the Congressional Medal was a Negro aboard one of the ships at Pearl Harbor when the Japs attacked. Did I dream it, or did a Negro perform one of the outstanding feats of heroism at Pearl Harbor? If I didn't dream it, who was the man, and where can I find the details of what happened and what honors the man received...
...like surgeons in public relations," explained platinum-haired Clem Whitaker, who got $100,000 a year for running the $4,500,000 campaign. "We perform the operation, and when the patient recovers we move out." Whitaker & Baxter had been working full time for A.M.A., needling doctors and public alike to fight the Truman-Ewing health scheme (TIME, Feb. 20, 1950). They were itching to get back to California and round up some new accounts...
...United Artists) extracts a full measure of excitement from the predicament of a family imprisoned in its own seamy flat by an unpredictable hoodlum (John Garfield) who turns the place into his hideout. Hunted by the police for murder and robbery, he lets members of the family out to perform their daily tasks-so long as one always stays behind as his hostage...
Balachovsky scrupulously pointed out differences between the Russian and German camps: the Reds do not perform scientific experiments on the prisoners, do not practice racial extermination; the possibility of release does exist. But, he concluded: the court "condemns before universal public opinion the Soviet concentration camps . . . already condemned by history...
...committee prescribes remedial work for students who chronically use faulty English in their mid-year and final examinations. Morrison said he was doubtful whether a standing faculty committee was necessary to perform this operation which might be accomplished more efficiently by some other means...