Word: performs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teams of carpenters and painters hurried through the streets of Naples last week to perform some quick alterations at more than 90 precinct offices of the city's dominant political party. Speedily the workmen painted out the words Partita Nazionale Monarchico and its star & crown emblem. In their place they painted Partita Monarchico Popolare and nailed up a new emblem, two lions rampant and a crown...
...Missouri) and a full-time music lover. He composed songs, piano pieces, ballets and operas (so far, not produced). For years he also held Box No. 1 at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. When Ilgrenfritz died last year at 66, he left a bequest: if the Met would perform one of his two operas (Le Passant, Phèdre), the opera company would stand to get about $125,000 (TIME...
Citation: "More completely perhaps than any other living person he has attained Milton's idea of an educated man: one who possesses the ability 'to perform justly and skillfully all the offices, both public and private, of peace...
...ghost surgeon in this case was the hero of Erich Maria Remarque's bestseller about prewar Paris, Arch of Triumph, but medical ghosts walk not only in fiction. They perform operations in U.S. hospitals every day. It works this way: the family doctor tells a patient that an operation is necessary and either says flatly, or strongly implies, that he will do it himself. But after the patient is under the anesthetic, in comes a more skilled specialist in surgery. He may know nothing of the patient's history and never see his face. Before the anesthetic wears...
...need Dr. Walters' help. In fact, he telephoned Walters while Mrs. Howarth and her husband were present. But months later, she learned that instead of Surgeon Walters' assisting Physician Hayes, it had been the other way round. Because she had not known in advance that Walters would perform the actual operation-and since he had never examined her-this was a violation of medical ethics...