Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poor man's Will Rogers. There's more poor men than rich men so I have a chance of lasting a long, long time . . . Over in Hollywood, everything gets exaggerated, including people's ideas of themselves. We live in New York. People there are normal-sized. We aim eventually just to live in oblivion and get to the grave without confusion . . . I'm a sad man. I've been leading mourner at the death of more jokes than any man alive...
...that the Business School can answer all the questions or even turn out men who can; but through its efforts and those of the industries whose future executives it trains, we get closer to the solutions. The laision now normal to Cambridge may make the ad-man's words a happy prophecy for some future day's readers...
...pronounced like a sneeze), and practically everyone else who was anybody was there. Shortly before midnight, a flourish of trumpets sounded, and the guests (1,500 in all) were ushered into the great hall, where Host de Beistegui, in scarlet robes and long curling wig, towered over all, his normal height (5 ft. 6 in.) wondrously magnified by platform soles that raised him 16 inches higher...
...Washington, the U.S. Public Health Service reported signs that the polio season has reached its peak and may be tapering off. Total cases so far this polio season: a "normal" 12,221. ¶ The Pentagon sent out a nationwide malaria alert to state health officers. More than 800 soldiers returning from Korea have been found to have active malaria parasites in their blood; home-grown Anopheles mosquitoes can spread the infection. Danger zones: Georgia (237 active cases), Oklahoma (101), Kentucky (97), Colorado (65), Wisconsin (60). ¶ The A.M.A. proudly reported a total of 26,191 potential doctors enrolled...
...operating table was a normal, squalling, blue-eyed infant except for one thing: he had been born without an esophagus. Surgeons cut into the abdomen, made an opening in the stomach wall so that the baby could be fed by tube. Then they sat back and hoped for the best...