Word: normal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Work for Mukhtars. Despite all the tensions, throughout most of the Israeli-occupied areas of Jordan life was returning to normal. The governor of what had once been Jordanian Jerusalem was out of a job, and the mayor of Jericho had fled to Amman; the mayors and mukhtars of more than 50 other towns were back at their desks, and Arab police were back on their beats...
...main attraction of community organizing is the chance it gives Harvard dissenters to act in what they consider a constructive manner to halt the war. The current widespread alienation from the government--and the normal politics which seems to maintain it--has stimulated many students who were previously apathetic over public affairs to become involved...
...looked like a county-fair town at election time. Hawkers were sold out of balloons and popcorn; hotels were jammed?and charging three times their normal prices. On every street, flags hung from front stoops and gawking kids from tree limbs. Several banners proclaimed: L.B.J...
...Many doctors have suspected for some time that a good number of them could prolong their lives by changing their eating habits-but proving the proposition was another matter. One reason: nobody knew whether it was possible to persuade a sufficient number of men leading normal lives to go on a low-fat diet and stick to it. At last week's A.M.A. meeting, the Executive Committee on Diet and Heart Disease reported after a long-term pilot project involving 2,000 men aged 45 to 54 that it was indeed possible. The next step, said the committee...
...From China. Despite such exercises in extended solipsism, the defeat could not be hidden. What was left of Jordan was swarming with refugees from the overrun west bank of the Jordan River. Amman's normal population of 300,000 was swelled by at least 100,000 refugees, many of whom arrived with their feet bleeding, their earthly possessions left behind. Schools, mosques and public buildings were converted into sleeping quarters, and thousands of refugees bedded down on sidewalks, in doorways or on the city's rocky hillsides. They foraged in garbage cans for food, which quickly became scarce...