Word: normalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crimes and disasters that never happened. Only two citizens lost their lives as a result of the blackout: one fell down a stairway and struck his head; another died of a heart attack after climbing ten flights of stairs. There were one-fourth as many arrests as on a normal night. Despite darkened department stores, few shoplifters were active. "We can't do much business in the dark, but neither can the shoplifter," said Macy...
...Square. Every day, thousands of visitors walk silently past the glass and granite crypt, stare reverently at the dimly lit, waxy-looking corpse guarded by rigid soldiers, then file back into the sunlight. Last week Soviet officials announced that the mausoleum would be closed for the next two months. "Normal repairs," was the explanation. But on what-or whom...
...amount of zinc in the human body is so small that textbooks offhandedly record its presence as "a trace." That trace, though, seems important indeed. Small as it is, the body's normal zinc supply is a vital factor in growth. If the supply is increased with daily capsules of an inexpensive zinc compound, said a report sent by Air Force Major Walter J. Pories to the International Congress of Military Medicine in Bangkok, tissue grows so quickly that wounds tend to heal far faster than usual...
Different approaches are tried, and the scene is run without concern for projection. "Try it in normal conversational tones; we'll bring it up when you're more confident." The theme of the scene seems to be obscure, so it stops. "Now I know that Mr. Miller has not written a good, clear scene here, but it is up to us to make it clear. You (Hale) are here to interrogate Goody Proctor, and even though you only address John Proctor, I must know that you have come to interrogate...
...Harvard to maintain its normal load of electricity, Murphy explained, a much more elaborate and expensive generator setup, costing $2 1/2 million, would be needed...