Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much-needed shot in the arm. Today the Navy has only a thin crust of modern planes, and too many of its squadrons still fly obsolete World War II models. Current production is so slow that it cannot even make up the deficit in Korean losses, training accidents, and normal wear & tear. The situation is so bad, said Floberg, that the Navy actually has 1,000 planes fewer than it did 20 months ago when the Korean war began...
...fact that Averell Harriman lost his dog Fifi in Paris and asked the French police to help find her appeared to shock a Pravda reporter, who cabled home a disapproving story: "Harriman and his compatriots have taken over France to such a degree that they consider it completely normal to mobilize the Paris police for a week to search for a lost dachshund...
...more than 3,000 years, doctors were balked in their efforts to restore anything like normal vision to elderly eyes clouded by cataracts. In modern times they have been able to cut into the eyeball, remove the cataract-clouded lens, and try to make up for the loss of the lens by spectacles. But they have not dared to insert a substitute in the eyeball. Now a British eye surgeon reports a way to do just that: a carefully ground lens made of plastic is slipped into the eyeball during the operation and stays there...
This situation is practically universal. So when Harvard oarsmen went about soliciting money for a fund, they hit upon a new scheme which they hoped would be more successful than the normal system. A group, unique in the University sports scene, known as The Friends of Harvard Rowing," was formed to provide an annual fund to be used for rowing expenditures apart from those in the regular H.A.A. budget...
...when all the formula bottles break, Jimmy-John's grim efforts to ride a bicycle or hike ten miles for a Boy Scout merit badge. Along the line, thanks to the long-suffering Roses, the problem pair finds understanding, love and finally the security that turns them into normal youngsters...