Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caused by a severed fuel line, started when we were at an altitude of approximately 1,500 feet. It was necessary to hold the plane in a violent sideslip attitude to keep the flames from enveloping the cockpits; this naturally caused us to lose altitude at a faster than normal rate. Lacking intercom in those days, I signaled the sergeant to bail out; the only delay on his part was difficulty in getting out of his safety harness and clearing the plane in a steep sideslip attitude. The sergeant, as eager as I was to get out of the plane...
Local record dealers predicted yesterday that prices on long playing records will gradually return to normal during the next three months, though manufactures continued to announce permanent price cuts as high as 40 percent...
...away with anarchy." said Jose Antonio ("Chichi") Remón, explaining why he ran for President of Panama in 1952. As the country's strongman police chief he had watched five men try to govern Panama during the span of one normal presidential term, had reluctantly turned a couple of the failures out of office at gunpoint. President Remón brought order out of disorder, and Panama found the sensation so pleasant that it marked him down as almost indispensable. But last week Remón lay dead, and something like a relapse into anarchy plainly threatened...
...printed his first angry blast about "the law," which "in its majestic equality, makes more damn fool mistakes." On New Year's Day, with Larry still locked up, Coates drove to Eagle Mountain and talked to the boy's teacher, who said that he was just "a normal, average kid." He talked to the townspeople and found them a decent lot, who had even taken up a collection to help Larry's father pay legal expenses. A day later, when Columnist Coates presented the parents on his TV show, the reaction was instantaneous: shocked viewers flooded...
Last week little Larry finally got a hearing, closed to press and public, before Judge Russell Waite. After it was over, the boy went home with his parents. Judge Waite told Coates that Larry was perfectly normal, should not have been held. The problems could have been adjusted at home easily enough...