Word: performs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usually indifferent to his best work (which passes unnoticed), and often hostile because of insignificant or irrelevant happenings. His every move is conditioned by a set of rules that would confuse a good chess player. The job would seem unrewarding-yet men ask for it, fight for it. Some perform it with distinction. Among the 96 members of the Senate these ten men stand out by their ability, devotion and integrity...
...additional sections in the bill, one providing 10 years in jail and $10,000 fine for anyone who transmits "classified" material to foreign agents or members of "Communist organizations," the other levelling the same penalties against anyone who "knowingly combines, conspires, or agrees with any other person to perform any act which would substantially contribute to the establishment within the United States of a totalitarian dictatorship the direction and control of which is to be vested in, or exercised by or under the domination or control of any foreign government, foreign organization, or foreign individual...
...services that many travelers consider it their private State Department. For no charge, its offices hold or forward mail and telegrams for travelers (it has the largest private mail service in the world), give travel information, recommend hotels and pensions, arrange for babysitters, find lost friends or relatives, and perform dozens of other services. Not long ago an American officer wrote the Paris office that he was hunting for "the most beautiful girl in the world." He didn't know her name, he said, but he had seen her for three days in Rheims during the war. He described...
Only one person appeared on the stage of the Wilbur Monday night. Cornelia Otis Skinner performed a series of modern and historical character sketches, all written by herself. It may be difficult to imagine an actress holding the full attention of the audience for more than two hours, but Miss Skinner has all the experience and technically perfected dramatic ability to perform the feat without the lightest trouble. In the course of the evening she destroyed 19 different women, and perhaps it is praise enough to say that she was convincing in every one of her characterizations...
...being, rather than to court destruction by resisting the state. "It is after a decision by faith and trusting in God alone that the Hungarian Lutheran Church has taken the way which it considers a narrow path in the present world . . ." Surely the church "might subsist in Hungary and perform its task under no more adverse circumstances than the apostles had in the Roman Empire. We cannot, therefore, take the responsibility for starting a so-called Church Resistance...