Word: normally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began lacklusterly, got worse before getting better, and ended in a nerve-twisting climax that practically stopped the normal pursuits of commerce in every U.S. city & town for three hours every afternoon. There were moments when it seemed as if the entire citizenry of the Borough of Brooklyn might be carried off in one collective heart attack. For in losing, the Brooklyn Dodgers, the beloved Bums, had run the gamut from derring-do to derring...
...were on their dignity and obviously respectful. By the second game they were playing like demoralized sandlotters, dropping sure catches, and swinging feebly at the plate. It wasn't until they moved to Ebbets Field and breathed again the stimulating air of Flatbush that the Dodgers recovered their normal insolence. By then the odds were 6 to 1 against them: no team since 1921 had ever lost the first two games and won a series...
...there pitching, his team three runs behind, when the last game ended. He had come in too late. Bucky Harris' Yankees were normal and steady again. And no one was steadier than Pitcher Joe Page, the Yankees' hero of the day. For five straight innings he shot his fast ball across the plate, and only one Dodger reached base. It was the end of the Dodgers...
...should recognize with humility that the cinema does a great deal more than the church to keep young people off the streets and out of the saloon bar. Perhaps gangster films have led to some increase in juvenile crime, but the normal child cheers the forces of the law.... It is no part of the church's duty to abolish occasions of temptation to the few if their general effect is salutary. Gangster films bring the element of adventure into the drab routine of a city...
...total. But the next season's catches fell off sharply-to 142,000 tons for Monterey, 83,000 tons for San Francisco. Despite the adoption of such expensive devices as sonar to locate the schools of fish last year's catches slumped even more. Bitter rivals in normal times, the canners banded together, hired a plane and got the Coast Guard to lend another to scout offshore for sardines. By last week, at what is usually the peak of the season, Monterey had brought in only 9,700 tons, hardly enough to keep its canneries busy...