Word: normalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boardwalk property, the city is still much the same as always. Earlier this year, many home and shop owners posted FOR SALE signs in hopes of making quick fortunes. But much of the opening-day hysteria has passed, and rents of property not on the Boardwalk have returned to normal. Indeed, some residents joke that the city's best chance of getting new money out of the casinos and on to the streets rests with a movement organized by a women's rights activist and a former Atlantic City madam. They have formed a group called HUSH (Help...
...height of the two-year Western drought, youngsters skateboarded on the dry concrete bed of the Los Angeles River. Shasta Lake receded to less than one-fourth its normal size, stranding boats on the rocky bottom. Folsom Lake, usually 260 ft. deep, was a virtual mud flat. The normally roaring Stanislaus River near Sacramento turned into a trickle. Kent reservoir serving Marin County dropped by more than a third of its usual level. Warned Richard Felch of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration: "We've got a good chance of another dust bowl...
...only thing certain about the weather is that it will change. Sure enough, late last fall, rain started falling in California. Hard. Water came so abundantly to the dry and thirsty land that in the first six months of this year the state got 2½ times its normal amount of rainfall. The rains have been so plentiful that there would have been disastrous floods if the drought had not emptied streams, lakes and reservoirs...
...close to full term. One British newspaper reported that at least another six women are expecting lab-conceived children within two months. Drs. Steptoe and Edwards say that the Brown "pregnancy is progressing well," but until the baby is born no one can be sure that it is normal...
...author's greatest regret was his marriage. The disastrous union had taken place half a century before, to a woman he felt had tricked him into an alliance that violated his basically homosexual nature. "You see, I was a quarter normal and three-quarters queer, but I tried to persuade myself it was the other way round. That was my greatest mistake. It flattered me that Syrie should throw herself at my feet. She told me that she cared for me more than anyone else in the world ... I was so vain and stupid I believed...