Word: gama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very strange," said Jorio S. Salgado-Gama '98, a victim of Tuesday's outbreak, as he looked puzzledly at the various plastic-covered offerings in the Union...
...Salgado-Gama said he returned to the first-year dining hall because he was comforted by the preventive measures taken by the University. But other students were still upset by Tuesday's events...
...something of a pity that appliance repair is the way to justify man in space these days. Thirty years ago, when all this was starting, the model for manned flight was not Art Carney in the sewer but Vasco da Gama rounding the Cape. Long ago, public support for space exploration had two parts. First, a spirit of competition. It was sport -- war by other means -- writ large, very large: an international race to the moon...
...cultural lexicon upon which we depend to communicate, "Western" is conceived as referring to the European/Mediterranean world. The role of Blacks in the early development of Western history was, therefore, necessarily limited. Contact with Africa remained confined to coastal regions as late as the year 1600 and de Gama did not even round the coast of Africa until 1498. In refusing this truth, perhaps Muhammad is implicitly asserting that the word "Western" extends beyond Europe and the Mediterranean to include Africa. If this is the case, however, he has construed "Western" so broadly that it is no longer...
...Muslim fundamentalists. A safari van filled with tourists came under a fusillade of small-weapons fire near Dairut, 168 miles south of Cairo. Sharon Pauline Hill, 28, from England, was struck by several bullets and died within 20 minutes. Two other British passengers received light flesh wounds. The Gama'a el-Islamiya, one of the most radical fundamentalist groups in Egypt, claimed responsibility in a brief statement given to reporters...