Word: normalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being followed by many G.O.P. leaders across the country indicate something quite different. If anything, the voters are uneasy and desire a brief period of retrenchment; and they are often sympathetic to the candidacies of men hoping to topple leaders seeking to extend their tenure and progressive policies beyond normal bounds...
...this scale, according to LIFE Science Library's Sound and Hearing, normal breathing measures 10 decibels, leaves rustling in a breeze score 20, a quiet restaurant 50, busy traffic 70, Niagara Falls 90, machine-gun fire at close range 130, a jet at takeoff 140, and a space rocket...
...many admiring colleagues puts it, Page is "a daredevil, an adventurer of the old school, not for publicity's sake, but because he is incredibly bored at doing anything else but the hairiest of man's feats." The son of an auditor, Page led a fairly normal life until his graduation from a good grammar school near London, then bought a Volkswagen bus and started driving from Amsterdam to Nepal. It took him a year; he then blithely climbed a few Himalayan mountains, began hitchhiking to Laos...
...defective gene was only one of tens of thousands in each sex cell (sperm or ovum); it was recessive, meaning that whenever it was paired with a normal gene, its maleficent action was blocked. Even so, it spread so far and wide that it eventually appeared among Ashkenazic families that did not know they were related. Then a husband and wife, each bearing the gene, began to have dysautonomic children. On the average, one-fourth of the offspring of such marriages will have two normal genes (see diagram); two will be healthy but carry one abnormal gene, while the fourth...
...combat leave found themselves stranded for up to 72 hours at Travis Air Force Base. As many as 100 at a time curled up to sleep on sofas or in makeshift barracks while they waited for hitchhikes aboard military planes passing through the base. Mail deliveries that normally move by air were slowed; shipments of everything from electronic equipment to exotic flowers were delayed for lack of air cargo space. Businessmen hitched rides on one another's corporate aircraft, demand for car rentals soared, and so did telephone bills, as executives settled for conference calls instead of face...