Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's highest court last week put an end to four years of legal wrangling, ruled that a man whose wife had a normal baby 360 days after he last saw her is entitled to a divorce on grounds of adultery. By a four-to-one majority the Law Lords of the House of Lords granted a decree to R.A.F. Veteran Charles Preston Jones. His wife gave birth on Aug. 13, 1946. Jones proved that he had not visited her since Aug. 18, 1945. Her claim that the baby was his was upheld by a lower court. The Lords...
...strip worried them because it depicted a hospital nurse who had decided to engineer a mercy killing of her sick father. She had put an overdose of narcotics in a hypodermic so that her father's nurse, thinking she was giving a normal dose, would inject it and kill him. Was Dr. Morgan in favor of euthanasia? Said the syndicate: the strip did plan to present the pros & cons of euthanasia. But the syndicate added comfortingly: Dr. Morgan would not forget his Hippocratic Oath...
...Ordered manufacturers to channel all their copper and brass scrap into "normal trade sources," i.e., not into grey market conversion deals...
Always the Normal. Thenceforth, Magician Rinn fervently practiced what he and most of his fellow magicians insistently preached: that no "spirit manifestation" existed that they could not duplicate by plain trickery. They showed how clammy "spirit hands" (that brushed the brows of spectators at dark séances) were concocted out of paraffin or simply from "a kid glove filled with wet sawdust . . . kept on ice." One piece of so-called "ectoplasm" ("ectopiffle would be a better name," remarked a surly magician) proved to be a chunk of animal lung. The only "spirit body" that Rinn failed to duplicate...
There is always, concludes Rinn, "a normal explanation...