Events ("What?")
- noblesse oblige
- the obligation of those of high rank to be honorable and generous (often used ironically)
- constructive possession
- (law) having the power and intention to have and control property but without direct control or actual presence upon it
- fold
- the act of folding
- line-drive triple
- a triple resulting from a line drive
- brewing
- the production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast
- decontamination
- the removal of contaminants
- honorable discharge
- a discharge from the armed forces with a commendable record
- cleistogamy
- the production of small nonopening self-pollinating flowers
- heroine
- the main good female character in a work of fiction
- backblast
- backfire from a recoilless weapon
- whirl
- the act of rotating rapidly
- sine wave
- a wave whose waveform resembles a sine curve
- brush-off
- a curt or disdainful rejection
- handspring
- an acrobatic feat in which a person goes from a standing position to a handstand and back again
- Caudine Forks
- a battle in the Apennines in 321 BC in which the Samnites defeated the Romans
- Battle of Rocroi
- a battle in the Thirty Years' War (1643); the French defeated the Spanish invaders
- piloting
- the occupation of a pilot
- religious service
- the act of public worship following prescribed rules
- anticlimax
- a disappointing decline after a previous rise
- phase I clinical trial
- a clinical trial on a few persons to determine the safety of a new drug or invasive medical device; for drugs, dosage or toxicity limits should be obtained
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