Word: normans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Norman Ramsey, professor of Physics, will testify before the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy in two weeks to convince the government to establish the most powerful high voltage accelerator in the world...
...Botanist Norman Taylor, editor of the excellent Taylor's Encyclopedia of Gardening, feels that plant advertising should specifically note which areas of the country are suitable for each species of plant or tree. Most reputable catalogues nowadays do in fact list preferred zones and soil conditions. But in general, Taylor points out, "people have been given the impression that spruce and hemlock and firs will thrive in the prairie regions west of the Mississippi. And you should be very careful about what rhododendrons you buy. The beautiful Rhododendron Maximum, for example, does well in New England and New York...
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Reigning Sorcery. Brittany and western Normandy still produce a dozen stories a year of sorcery and witchcraft. Sometimes it goes beyond fun and games. In the Norman hamlet of Saint-Fraimbault last month, a woman drowned herself because she believed she was a victim of the evil eye, and a young farmer reportedly hanged himself for a similar reason. Driven to holy anger, the local priest cried from the pulpit to his tiny congregation: "You believe more in the devil's power than in God's. Sorcery reigns here as master...