roborant \ROB-uh-ruhnt\, adjective:
- Strengthening; restoring vigor.
- A strengthening medicine; a tonic; a restorative.
Origin: Roborant derives from the present participle of Latin roborare, "to strengthen," from robur, roboris, "strength."
- 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.
History
- A Streetcar Named Desire: Tennessee William's Pulitzer Prize-winning play opened on Broadway (1947)
- heart transplant: the procedure was first performed by Christiaan Barnard on 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)
- George McClellan 1826
- Joseph Conrad 1857
- Carlos Montoya 1903
- Ferlin Husky 1925
- Andy Williams 1927
- Jean-Luc Godard 1930
- Jaye P. Morgan 1931
- Bobby Allison 1937
- John Cale 1940 - Musician (Velvet Underground)
- Mary Alice 1941
- Peter C. Schulz 1942
- Ozzy Osbourne 1948
- Heather Menzies 1949
- Mickey Thomas 1949 - Musician (Jefferson Starship)
- Don Barnes 1952 - Musician (.38 Special)
- Rick Mears 1953
- Steve Forbert 1954
- Paul Gregg 1954 - Musician (Restless Heart)
- Daryl Hannah 1960 - Actress
- Julianne Moore 1960
- Katarina Witt 1965
- Montell Jordan 1968
- Brendan Fraser 1968 - Actor ("George of the Jungle")
- Royale Watkins 1969
- Bruno Campos 1973
- Holly Marie Combs 1973
- Lauren Roman 1975
- Anna Chlumsky 1980
- Brian Bonsall 1981
- Amanda Seyfried 1985
- Michael Angaran 1987
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