Word: normale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simultaneously, some of the guerrillas blasted a hole in the concrete wall with an antitank gun and swarmed through it; others quickly scaled a rear fence. Though allied intelligence had predicted the attack, the embassy's defense consisted of only five U.S. military guards-just one more than normal. They fought back so fiercely that only their courage denied the enemy complete success. Sergeant Ronald W. Harper, 20, a Marine guard, managed to heave shut the embassy's massive teakwood front doors just seconds before the guerrillas battered at them with rockets and machine guns, thus denying...
...from sea water. Almost every night, privately owned Super Constellations fly badly needed medicines, along with arms and ammunition, from Lisbon into Port Harcourt. Biafra is unable to sell any of its oil and its refineries are virtually shut down. But breweries and cigarette plants are producing at normal levels, and factories that are not short of material are working part time...
...pint of whisky, with soda, on two successive days, and eight weeks later had a normal healthy boy. Dr. Fuchs then refined the method, so that he now takes doubly sterile (spore-free as well as germfree) alcohol and makes a solution about as strong as a tall highball. Instead of giving patients a swig, he drips it into their veins. Among 100 patients so far treated this way at New York Hospital, and at least 200 more at White Medical Center in Los Angeles, the alcohol cut short the contractions in about 70% and delayed birth for as long...
...fortnight ago, Patricia Cunningham gave birth to a full-term, 5-lb. 5-oz. girl. If she had had an infusion shortly before delivery, the baby might have been a bit high at birth. But she had had none; Beth Ann was sober and altogether normal...
Known as "the disease of kings," hemophilia is a hereditary disease, almost always limited to males, in which blood takes a very long time to coagulate. Normal blood takes five to fifteen minutes to form a clot, but the blood of hemophiliacs may take many hours...