Word: normally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like everyone else, Harry Truman had his worries; as President he had more than the normal share. But nothing seemed to dampen his resilient spirits. Last week he was having the time of his life passing out two boxes of shiny new pens, the gift of an anonymous admirer. On each was stamped the same inscription he uses on his match folders: "I swiped this from Harry S. Truman...
Chappuis scored three of Michigan's touchdowns against Michigan State. Last year he piled up more yardage from running and passing than Michigan's former star, Tom Harmon. By normal standards, sturdy-framed Chappuis is old (24) for a college player, but this is hardly a normal year. A wartime lieutenant, he had been shot down over the Brenner Pass on his 21st mission, and made his way south to the British lines...
...Arab, dirty and wounded, lay on the road, victim of a hit-&-run driver. Bayard Dodge, a young American, was on his way home after weary hours of doling out food to starving Beirut factory workers. Famine had sharpened the Near East's normal indifference to death; of all those who passed the sufferer, only the American stopped. Dodge took one look at the man's body, saw that there was life in it, picked him up and drove him to a hospital...
...letter to SEC, Toulmin said that he quit "because of the manner in which Preston Tucker is using the funds obtained from the public through sale of stock." President Tucker, charged Toulmin, had ignored persistent requests that the $15 million "be spent and administered under . . . controls normal to legitimate business." To newsmen, Toulmin described Tucker as "a tall, dark, delightful, but inexperienced boy." He added that the Tucker 48 does not actually run, it just goes "chug-chug." Furthermore, "I don't know if it can back up." To all this Tucker snapped: "Absurd. I am surprised...
...geographical distribution of foreign students closely follows the pattern established last year when 82 men from other countries were in Cambridge. China, with seven students, has climbed closer to its normal position at the head of the numerical list. Canada has nine in the College, and Guatamala and Mexico closely follow the leaders with seven apiece...