Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When you have a situation that has gone on, as we have had this cold war, since 1945 . . . there must be no gun unfired and no individual effort spared." To do the job under such circumstances, said Ike, "takes, therefore, possibly more personal activity than I think would be normal in more normal circumstances...
...ejection, the cable that yanks the seat free also trips a safety lever that sets the parachute's aneroid barometer into action. As the pilot falls, the increasing pressure compresses the metal diaphragm of the barometer. When the barometer records a pressure normal to 10,000 feet (the altitude was considerably higher in Rankin's case, because of the barometric turbulence of the storm), a strong spring releases the ripcord pin and the chute opens...
...have experienced the Sahara's killing climate and awesome aridity -temperatures around the year range from below freezing up to more than 130°F. ; in some areas the normal interval between rains is five years or more-comparison with any part of California except Death Valley seems ridiculous. The political comparison is not so farfetched. The hope that De Gaulle has held out to war-weary Algeria in his "Constantine Plan" (TIME, Oct. 13) depends on his assurances to the poor Moslem population that they have a prosperous future to share in economic and political equality with Metropolitan...
Anne Roe, a pioneer worker in normal adult psychology, alcoholism, public health, and applied psychology, has been appointed Lecturer on Education. She will teach courses in Education and do research in guidance...
...heart attack; in Manhattan. Restored and reunited with the wife he deserted in England 14 years before, Bolton turned to helping others, called his congregation of penniless wanderers the "most desperate, most defeated, most faithful in the world," established a "halfway" center to prepare them for a return to normal society...