Word: conduite
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While clearly pleased with this swing back to constitutional government, Washington is concerned that Honduras might be used as a conduit for arms shipped to the Salvadoran guerrillas from Cuba and elsewhere. There have also been reports that thousands of Somoza's former national guardsmen are holed up in Honduras and plotting a counterrevolution against the Sandinistas. Partly to help the Honduran government guard against such in filtration, Washington has offered it a $3.5 million military-aid package...
Despite its occasional failures at inopportune moments, the back is a marvel of biological engineering. It is not only the body's principal scaffolding, on which the skull, ribs, pelvis and shoulder bones are all anchored. It also serves as the major conduit for the bundles of nerves-the spinal cord-that link the brain with other parts...
...cleared it. Ghotbzadeh in turn delivered the document to Khomeini. According to one version of events in Tehran, the artful Foreign Minister decided to keep the Villalón connection a secret and told Khomeini that the message had come through the Swiss channel. Another version is that the conduit from Villalón to Ghotbzadeh was in fact the Swiss...
...they called "Spanish Tony," who carved his little niche of rock and roll history on the original Beggar's Banquet album cover: "Spanish Tony Where Are You," scrawled on a drainpipe by Keith Richards. Sanchez was a groupie, heroin was his pudendum, and $250 his weekly reward as drug conduit and fall guy for the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World...
...such, a quintessentially gonzo situation. Hunter Thompson and his "technical adviser" (drug conduit) Yail Bloor, while escaping the angry Yucatan town of Cozumel and unpaid bills for hotel rooms, drugs and cars, have to get rid of "two hits of MDA, six tabs of acid, about a gram and a half of raw cocaine, four reds and a random handful of speed" before their Aeromexico flight touches down in Texas. The Lone Star State, it seems, has a reputation for being unfriendly to people who try to carry massive amounts of hallucinogens through customs...