Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other respects, according to my informants, football players are treated like normal students. They must go to classes, and some even get good marks. As far as flunking football players goes, one reporter commented, "Well, that's up to the individual professors...
...Responsibility. Pusan was already choked with 225,000 refugees (normal pop. 400,000), and had to be kept free for the movement of military supplies. At week's end, the U.N. army announced that once again Communist agents had been found among the refugees, ordered more thorough screening (which would be an added burden for U.N. forces...
...present uncertainty," Conant said, "two facts stand out: we are not engaged in a global war; the nation is not committed to total mobilization." This, he foresaw, will be the state of the country for many a year to come, and educational institutions should not suspend their normal functions and set aside plans for innovations as they did after Pearl Harbor...
...admissions director also reported that applications for next September's first-year class are now proceeding at a normal rate, but he added, "It's a long way from application to registration." As a result, the Law School expects next year's enrollment to be "considerably lower" after the end of the present academic year...
Agonized Frustration. When his "victim" first starts talking into the microphone, Dr. Fairbanks sets the time interval just like the normal one. The speaker is rather surprised to hear his own words so loudly and clearly. Then Dr. Fairbanks gradually lengthens the time interval until the speaker hears each syllable one-twenty-fifth of a second later than is normal. The result: the speaker is slowly driven toward the gibbering stage. His words won't come; he stammers, repeats, screams in agonized frustration. His face turns red; he sweats and trembles, showing many of the symptoms of emotional disorder...