Word: honore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members of the team compete to be elected "Ironman," a position considered to be of great honor, according to swimmer David O. Schwartz...
...Even though it would be a SAC sponsored activity, it would be an opportunity for the various groups we represent to come together to honor and perhaps learn from a special guest," she said...
Leather garter belts have now been given a place of honor over the cash register, clothing has been sorted by composition (leather, plastic or vinyl), and it's difficult to miss the containers of "sex grease" in the display case in the middle of the store...
...ordinary student. He is a botany professor and dean at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, a world specialist in medicinal plants and, far from least in this exotic setting, the paramount chief of the nearby village of Falealupo. To people here, he is known as Nafanua, in honor of a legendary Samoan warrior goddess who once saved the village from oppression and protected its forests...
...azar ravaged much of eastern India, where it earned its name--Hindi for "black sickness." In 1900 a British physician, Dr. William Boog Leishman, developed a stain to detect the parasite with a microscope, and Dr. Charles Donovan demonstrated that specimens could be extracted from the spleen. In their honor, the deadly parasite is called Leishmania donovani. Variants of kala-azar are found in southern Europe and South America. A complex treatment involving daily injections of a potentially toxic, antimony-based compound (as in the drug Pentostam) has been available for a half-century...