Word: normale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wise and vigorous government [the Tories] have allowed themselves, by talking in generalities about abstract principles such as 'freedom' and 'enterprise,' to be represented as the captious remnant of a bygone social order. . . They have treated the rise of Socialism as an aberration from the normal British way of life, instead of recognizing that the Socialist ideal of the welfare state is very closely in tune with the ideas of a frustrated and war-weary nation...
...course, the most spectacular calamity in Soviet diplomatic history. Since Molotov was not demoted for that it seemed scarcely believable that he would be held accountable for the recent failures of Soviet policy in Europe. It was more likely that the U.S.S.R. was merely reverting to its normal practice of having mouthpieces rather than policymakers handle Soviet dealings with the outside world. Litvinoff was a mouthpiece, and so was his predecessor Chicherin. Vishinsky, for all his forensic talents, belongs in that category...
Fuller Lives. The American Military Government has spurred local people to take steadily increasing responsibility. Nagasaki's normal cheerfulness has been largely restored by giving personal needs priority over industrial recovery. Food is nearly up to prewar level, with one-seventh the supply provided by America. Department stores are well stocked, especially compared to Europe. Steady progress has been made toward rebuilding the destroyed 47% of the city's housing...
...Normal State. In Austin, Tex., Attorney Wright Stubbs, defending a woman charged with drunken driving, shook the prosecution's main piece of evidence with a telling argument: "Talkativeness is certainly no evidence of intoxication in the case of a woman...
Jordan explained that Dave Smith is only 50 percent his normal self because of an arm injury, which has limited his practice time as well as hampering his match performances...