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Provided by the compucert roborant \ROB-uh-ruhnt\, adjective:
- Strengthening; restoring vigor.
- A strengthening medicine; a tonic; a restorative.
Roborant derives from the present participle of Latin roborare, "to strengthen," from robur, roboris, "strength."
management by driveby- When a manager comes whizzing through the cubicles to see if you need anything from him/her without stopping to listen to your answer. Way for manager to know what his/her people are doing.
Every morning Sherwin swings by our area to say hi and pulls a management by driveby.
TriviaWhat role did disgraced baseball great Pete Rose play in the 1991 made-for-TV movie Babe Ruth?
- He portrayed Ty Cobb, the player who held the major league record for career hits (4,191) until Rose broke it (4,256). Because Rose was booted from baseball for gambling on games, Major League Baseball would not let him appear in uniform in the film.
- heart transplant: the procedure was first performed by Christiaan Barnard on 53-year-old Louis Washkansky in Cape Town; the patient lived 18 days before succumbing to pneumonia, but his new heart didn't fail (1967)
- 20th Century Limited: luxury NYC–Chicago train, on which passengers were routinely given flowers and perfume, finished its final run (1967)
- Bhopal disaster: poison gas emission from Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed thousands of people in arguably the worst industrial disaster ever (1984)
- Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828): portraitist who drew the picture of George Washington on the one-dollar bill
- Hayato Ikeda (1899-1965): Japanese prime minister
- Carlos Montoya (1903-1993): guitarist and composer who popularized flamenco music; other musicians born on this date include Ferlin Husky (84), Andy Williams (82), Jaye P. Morgan (78), Ozzy Osbourne (61) and Montell Jordan (41)
- Brendan Fraser (41): actor, The Mummy; also, actors Steven Culp (54), Julianne Moore (49), Daryl Hannah (48), Holly Marie Combs and Bruno Campos (both 36), Anna Chlumsky (29), Amanda Seyfried (24) and Michael Angarano (22)
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