Word: normalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week the baseball season ends with that annual national passion-the World Series. NBC will carry the games in color. Otherwise TV settles down, after the flurry of the new season's shows, into its normal format...
...greatest boons for patients with certain types of heart disease was the discovery that a simple, direct-current electric shock can restore a twitching ("fibrillating") heart to a normal pumping beat (TIME, Nov. 30, 1962). The most notable drawback is that this has usually required the preliminary use of general anesthesia, which is dangerous for heart patients. Now, in the New England Journal of Medicine, two George Washington University doctors report that a simpler and safer substitute for general anesthesia is readily available...
...take it by swallowing tablets, but the G.W. doctors recommend giving it by intravenous injection to patients with heartbeat abnormalities. As a result, they say, the patients are sedated gently but so deeply that they wake up with no memory of the jolting shock, and with heartbeats restored to normal...
...ducks. Thousands of breeding marshes and potholes turned to mud, then dust. That meant that for every 100 ducks that flew north to breed in the spring, only 80 came back through U.S. flyways in the fall. Hatchings were a little better this year but still far below normal times when 170 ducks return south for every 100 that migrate to breeding grounds...
About 100 students were turned away from the depot between 7:00 and 2:30 p.m., the depot's normal closing time, trudging home to re-make their beds with dirty sheets. For some, it was the second consecutive night: the Matthews depot ran out just at closing time Monday...