Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This man wouldn't be running for President if he could have settled for anything less. But all his plans for a normal life died young. He calls April 14, 1945, "the day that changed my life." It's likely that the experience of near fatal injury and nearly impossible recovery would have affected 50 different people in 50 different ways. For Dole, who had grown up in a family and a town that prized perseverance, the injury acted mainly as a magnifier. He became himself, only more...
...being pushed away. If you bear Dole's scars, says a Republican Senator who has watched him for 25 years, "you don't let anybody know. You carry a pen. You always wear the dark blue suit and white shirt. You do all these things that say, 'I'm normal. I'm the same as everyone else.' The effect of that hurt is it says, 'Don't get close to me. I have come back from the dead.' You keep adding and adding to that armor over 30, 40, 50 years, it becomes a barrier to decision making, a barrier...
...crossed the finish line, Johnson was still in the danger zone, bellowing over his record and pulling at his unitard. But then he approached Fredericks, who had beaten him in the 200 just a few weeks ago, and the aggression melted away. Johnson smiled warmly and returned to his normal, better self. In the press conference, he was asked how it felt to go faster than any man had ever gone before--9.2 sec. in the last 100 m. "It was like the first time I went down the hill at the end of our street in the go-cart...
...first glance, the selection makes sense. As the biggest movie of the summer, it would resonate with the maximum number of voters. Normal folk buying tickets to the PG-13 film (no sex, please, we're the Doles) and indulging in Goobers and popcorn makes for an excellent photo-op. Culturally clueless--his favorite entertainers, Glenn Miller and John Wayne, are dead--Dole was taken to task after his first Hollywood "nightmares-of-depravity" speech for criticizing movies he hadn't seen and music he hadn't heard. Now that he was planning to do a back flip with...
...body and getting into all sorts of trouble as a result. But we're not talking about an ill-considered wish going merrily awry here. We're talking about a tragic illness. For Jack doesn't just get older and hairier, he keeps aging at four times the normal rate. This means, of course, that he is something like 70 years old by the time he graduates from high school--and will probably be dead by the time his classmates hit grad school...