Word: normalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the rebellion finally quelled and Tshombe forced out of office last month, President Joseph Kasavubu figured it was time to bring his neighborly relations back to normal. His first step came at the African "summit" meeting at Accra, where he neatly buried the hatchet with such neighbors as Tanzania and the Sudan, which had also supported the rebels. Last week, after hours of "pleasant" conversation in Leopoldville, Brazzaville's Ganao succumbed to the Kasavubu treatment as well. The two Congos agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations and restore the permanent ferry service that had once linked their...
...Palace and bowed shyly. "How long have you been together now?" the Queen asked softly. "Oh, for many years," muttered Paul McCartney. Then Queen Elizabeth II pinned the silver badges of Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire on their solemn, ungear suits. Outside, things were normal again, with a few hundred caterwauling kids trying to crash the palace gates and the Beatles bubbling Liverpudlian again. "She's got a keen pad," whooped Paul, "and I liked the staff. I thought they'd be dukes and things, but they were just fellahs." Then he added...
...happy accident occurred, said Dr. C. Thomas Flotte (pronounced Float), while he was treating a patient with a clot in one of the renal veins. Dr. Flotte took a presurgery blood sample, and the laboratory reported a cholesterol level of about 400 mg., or double the normal. During the operation, the patient received a pint of dextran, both to maintain his blood volume and to reduce clotting. Then he got a pint a day for two days. Dr. Flotte sent a fresh blood sample to the lab and got back a cholesterol reading...
...giving the drug by intravenous injection to surgery patients who happen to have cholesterol levels in the abnormal range of 300 mg. to 600 mg. After an infusion of a pint a day for three days, the level of cholesterol and other fats in their blood drops back to normal, and can be kept there with infusions of a pint every month. Although Dr. Flotte has no idea how dextran works, he hopes it may also help to dissolve fatty plaques already formed in the arteries...
...last minute, he desperately rounded up all the exiles he could find, they still refused to come. Their real goal all along had been to cut Kwame Nkrumah, Father of Pan-Africanism, promoter of subversion, and proud possessor of the continent's largest ego, down to his normal 5-ft. 7-in. size...