Word: normalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Back to Normal...
Would it not be better to refer to our "recession" as a "return to normal" after the unusual postwar highs . . . ? Many businessmen, wishfully thinking, seem to have taken these highs for normal business and are now crying because the balloon has burst as we all knew it would...
...Later that evening, I learned the truth. From that moment we led a strange life. It was only when we had a lovers' quarrel that he used his normal deep man's voice. Other girls never guessed...
...months, truck farmers around Xochimilco had been pulling down the water level by digging artesian wells to feed their cauliflower and carrot patches. The municipality of Mexico City did nothing about it. As the waterline in the canals dipped under the one-foot mark (four feet is normal), the boatmen, led by Pacheco, tackled the problem themselves. Armed with picks & shovels, 1,000 of them with their wives and children started digging in the mucky canals. Thousands more joined them, all seeking new springs to feed Xochimilco...
...than the greenest rookies. Nobody had to give them orders about getting in shape; they trained themselves. Many a player turns up at camp hog-fat; Musial, who had put himself on a winter schedule of two meals a day, reported five pounds underweight and built up to his normal 175. When the season began, Stan Musial dug in at the plate with his peculiar crouch. "He looks like a kid peeking around the corner to see if the cops are coming," explained one coach...