Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...decision to invade Cambodia and the deaths of the students at Kent State, Pusey issued a statement in which he said, "I urge all officers of the University, while not neglecting their responsibilities toward the work of the University, to make every effort to accommodate interruptions in our normal procedures which may be occasioned in the next few days by acts of conscience relating to our country's involvement in the war in Southeast Asia...
...dinner party, a group of friends." Maria's estranged husband, a film director, lets go with a few complaints of his own. "Maria would say that they were not her friends, but Maria has never understood friendship, conversation, the normal amenities of social exchange." And later. The two in bed, he shouts at her, "Well go to sleep, cunt. Go to sleep. Die. Fucking vegetable." Fucking vegetable, he shouts at her in bed, little realizing that in her catatonia Maria is only holding a mirror up to the more frenetic stiffs surrounding...
...most basic of these techniques involves pulling the face into shape with an internal sling made of fascia, the fibrous tissue that separates and encloses the muscles of the body. Fascial slings do not restore normal muscle control, but by supporting sagging face muscles, they help to bring a certain symmetry to the face at rest...
...temple to the jawbone, is split into three sections. These are then separated and connected to the patient's eye, mouth and cheek. After considerable practice before a mirror, a patient can learn to use the transposed muscle to control winking or smiling. The operation returns a near-normal appearance to the face at rest...
...industry's dilemma. The 747, insured for $24.5 million, was covered by two kinds of policies-"all risk" insurance, placed largely with a U.S. consortium, and "war risk" protection, 60% underwritten by Lloyd's of London and 40% by the U.S. Government. "All risk" encompasses normal flight hazards including, in U.S. practice, damage to a plane hijacked to Cuba. "War risk" covers loss by enemy action during war. But nowadays, what is a war? There remains a range for debate as to whether the hijacking was a simple criminal incident covered by "all risk" policies...