Word: normalities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gaston Levy, the Moulin Rouge explanation (bone fractures at the ages of 13 and 14) is silly. His own "highly probable hypothesis'': the artist suffered from polyepiphyseal dysplasia, or defects at the bone ends, where growth takes place. This fitted the known facts that Toulouse-Lautrec appeared normal as an infant, had poor growth from the age of nine, thereafter had difficulty getting up from a chair, and walked in a clumsy duck waddle...
...Javert, 50, tells it, he was "an ignorant neophyte" in 1936 when he blithely prescribed a high-mineral, high-vitamin diet for a three-time aborter of 41, gave her full emotional reassurance, and was rewarded by delivering her normal baby-although older and supposedly wiser men were using more complex treatments. Since then it has not always been so easy, but Dr. Javert has an enviable record (and a large following of husbands and wives who are convinced that they would never have had children if they...
...agencies disputed Social Worker O'Malley's financial point (Dori would obviously win a full scholarship), but they agreed that there are always problems arising from differences in the intelligence of children in the same family. Retorted Dameron: "If a couple had a very bright child by normal birth, does God then say. 'Don't have any more children'?" The league's reply: "In adoption we're just avoiding a risk that natural families have to take...
...ulterior purpose: to convince the non-Communist world, inside and outside Russia, that a genuine democratic committee fight can be staged in destalinized Moscow and put to a vote. Undoubtedly there was a .heated Presidium meeting, followed by a meeting of the Central Committee, which lasted far beyond normal duration. The men soon to be fingered as the organizers of the Leningrad Case (see box)-a charge which, according to all Soviet precedent, would cost them their lives-undoubtedly put up a vigorous fight: Molotov, attacking Khrushchev's inept foreign policy; Malenkov, agilely trying to save his skin...
...MIGs, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spent five hours chatting with Egypt's fire-eating President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Presumed topic A: resumption of relations between Egypt and Great Britain. Middleman Nehru's neutralist comment after the confab: Anglo-Egyptian relations are "progressively returning to normal...