Word: owa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small but significant first step may have been taken in the conquest of a disease so frightening that it is enshrined in the old Lingala curse "Owa na ntolo " (May you die of sleeping sickness). At Nairobi's International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases (ILRAD), a team of scientists has managed to grow in the test tube the long, slender, infective form of the single-celled parasite Trypanosoma brucei. That feat-accomplished by Hiroyuki Hirumi, a Japanese-born American scientist, and John Doyle, a Scottish colleague-has been the aim of medical scientists for years. In the past...
Carter then flew to Des Moines, where he had scored the first victory in his campaign last January. He chatted with several giggling teen-age waitresses and noted good-humoredly that several diners nearby were wearing badges proclaiming EYE-OWA EYE-TALIANS FOR CARTER, a gibe at his back-home mispronunciation of Italians during his acceptance speech...
...Will looked down at Spider and Flex when they walked up. "Hi pretty boys. Watch yourselves; this is owa toif." They just looked at Will and at his chain, and headed inside...
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