Word: performs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month ago, looking as French as frogs' legs, the beret-bearing, 60-year-old composer arrived at Tanglewood, in Massachusetts' Berkshires, to be guest instructor in composition. Before he left Paris, he had received a cable from Tanglewood's Serge Koussevitzky: "We will perform your [opera] Le Roi d'Yvetot. Are you happy...
Neither Fancy's confident talk nor his building program impressed Interstate Commerce Commission Chairman John Monroe ("Steamboat") Johnson.* Said he last week: "The railroad statements are misleading ... The railroad plant today, compared to the size of the job it has to perform, is not nearly as good as in 1941. I would say that the outlook on the freight-car situation today is gloomier than it ever has been...
...Siena to house a concert hall and theater, gathered together one of Europe's finest music libraries. On the count's payroll are the topnotch Siena quintet (now known as the Quintette Chigiana), the choirmaster of Siena's newly organized town choir, the visiting artists who perform each winter in the Chigi-underwritten concert season. Each fall, moreover, the count backs Siena's big' week-long festival of Italian music...
...many a conservative was for that kind of saving, arguing that the military always asked for more than they needed anyway. The military gritted its teeth and went along. Omar Bradley, who had asked for an Army of 837,000 as the minimum that would be needed just to perform "an emergency, one-shot mission," agreed to an Army of 677,000 because, he said, he recognized the limits of what a nation could spend for security "without imperiling its economic survival." His words illustrated the country's dilemma...
...also appeared that General Bradley had not fully anticipated the extent of the military job which U.S. troops, planes and ships might be called upon to perform in Asia, where Russia saw and was now exploiting the chance to move in force without committing any Russians, at the same time effectually sucking in U.S. military strength...