Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deed was done in a lucid, ten-page White Paper on Defense, written by 49-year-old Minister of Defense Duncan Sandys, who called it "the biggest change in military policy ever made in normal times." Under the plan, the body strength of Britain's armed forces will be cut in half by 1962. Its battleships will be scrapped, its fighter planes junked, its overseas garrisons drastically reduced. New reliance of the British forces: guided missiles carrying nuclear warheads...
...illustrations comprise an unprecedented gallery of human faces and limbs deformed from birth, shattered by shot and shell, smashed in accidents, maimed by disease or burned to hideous unrecognizability. Yet his before-and-after sequences end with a happy improvement, and in many cases there is restoration to completely normal appearance...
...gives the patient a "trunk" several inches long. One man disappeared after this stage of the operation, did not show up again for years. Then he explained: he had made a living in a circus sideshow as "the elephant man." With the flap tailored as planned, the nose looked normal...
...nose-bobbing for appearances' sake: "If as the patient comes in the door you can't take your eyes off the huge and distorted nose, then reduction is usually justified." But some people with normal noses have a "nasal complex"; no surgery can help them. "Such patients are usually sent by a psychiatrist. The best thing to do is to send them back; the psychiatrist has taken the easy way out by suggesting surgery to cure a nasal complex...
...NEVER say a good word about my secretary outside the office," says a Chicago lawyer. "If I did, somebody else would have her on his payroll tomorrow." To many U.S. businessmen such caution is normal. Though a record 21 million U.S. women are working, only about 2 million hold secretarial jobs-and only a small percentage are genuine secretaries. As prosperity piles up the paperwork, the shortage becomes more severe; some 250,000 secretarial jobs go begging every day. "We just need bodies," moans a Midwest employment agent. "There haven't been enough secretaries, or even file clerks...