Word: performs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After careful, detailed study by his advisers, Dwight Eisenhower will begin sending a series of budget-change messages to Congress by April 1. The aim is still to balance the budget, but Joe Dodge had a word of caution: "You can't perform 60-day miracles...
Last fall President Jean S. Milner of the Presbyterian Board of National Missions sent Pastor Evans an unprecedented job offer. "We need you, Lou," he wrote, "to perform a unique ministry to this nation which is not now being fulfilled by any Protestant church . . . We need your ministry in a preaching mission in our great American cities from coast to coast, and in the huge gatherings in conventions of leaders of labor, of education, of industry ... in a spiritual ministry carried directly to a whole nation." Fortnight ago, after a long time thinking the offer over, Pastor Evans accepted...
...recent years, big city exhibitionists, bent on suicide, headlines, or both, have taken to balancing high on window ledges while threatening to jump to the crowd-jammed streets below. It remained for a wealthy young Texas cattle rancher named Ollie William Cox to perform the same tragic stunt in an airplane...
...politicians who govern France gathered in the National Assembly last week to perform the familiar French rite of political execution. The appointed victim this time was Premier Antoine Pinay, who in nine months and two weeks had given France its most stable economy since the war (TIME...
Electronics men are especially fond of transistors, those wondrous specks of germanium that perform like vacuum tubes while demanding almost no current and generating almost no heat (TIME...