Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...price of flimsy Korean rubber shoes is ten times higher than last June. Recently, at the summer-resort town of Tongnae, near Pusan, an important new plant was dedicated, with official tours and speeches. It is a money-printing plant. Even if the printers work overtime (beyond the normal Korean ten hours), and even if the eight presses do not break down, the plant will probably not be able to keep up with the government's currency needs...
...kept alive. The U.S. Army's Civil Assistance Command has the backbreaking, heartbreaking job of doing it. In addition to food and medical supplies, CAC is shipping in lumber for housing and fertilizer for the rice crop. This year's rice crop will probably be 50% of normal...
Fast-spreading pestilences that killed much of the population during the Middle Ages were a product of the verminous times, when little was known about medicine, and virtually nothing was done to enforce public sanitation. In modern countries, germs have a harder life. Normal health regulations would keep a seeded disease from developing into a self-propagating pestilence...
...medical doctor. In all but eight states,* their graduates may now prescribe drugs and perform surgery, as well as practice the "manipulation" which is the keynote of their science. The main trouble has been the osteopath's emphasis on manipulation, a technique designed to maintain the normal circulation of blood and proper nerve function, which osteopaths regard as basic to all health. Thus, many M.D.s persist in regarding osteopathy as little better than chiropractic, whose practitioners claim that illness springs from maladjustment of the spinal column. The American Medical Association still holds it unethical for an M.D. to refer...
...wife, and become quite reconciled to the idea. "Such unions do no harm in nature," says Edmund. "Perhaps people are braver than they used to be," says Bridget. "What a change, and in a way an interest for us!'' says Edmund's brother, who finds normal country life a bit dull anyway...