Word: normalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defending successfully against this attack, Restic pointed out, is to have everyone stick to his assignment. If the defensive players follow their normal inclination to help out and swarm toward the ball carrier, they'll leave themselves wide open to the pitch...
Norman Bigelow is, by most people's standards, probably insane. Normal humans have enough trouble without being imprisoned in plastic bags with deadly snakes, or chained before piles of blazing gunpowder. But then, Norman Bigelow is not a normal human: he is a man totally dedicated...
Following Schleyer's kidnaping, Schmidt had set up two crisis staffs that met frequently in marathon sessions, at the heavily guarded Chancellery in Bonn. Elected officials and political leaders spent countless hours there in conferences, and the normal functions of the government slowed discernibly. The Bundestag dealt with only the most pressing business; the Chancellor canceled a state visit to Poland and a number of speaking engagements across the country...
...decays; Lionni's plants do neither. Instead, writes Lionni, they exist outside of time, "like a memory that has taken on actuality." These matterless, insubstantial greens, he notes, "though impervious to any violent acts of nature, disintegrate at the least contact with an object alien to their normal environment, dissolving into dust and leaving only a chemically inert white powder." Spotting the organisms, which fall into two basic groups, tests faculties of the most accomplished observers. "Those of the first group are directly discernible by the senses and indirectly by instruments," explains Lionni, "while those of the second...
...telegram to South African Prime minister John Vorster and D.B. Sole, South Africa's ambassador to Washington, Bok called Qoboza's imprisonment "a travesty of justice under normal civilized standards" and asked for his immediate release...