Events ("What?")
- reconnaissance
- the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy)
- brake failure
- brakes fail to stop a vehicle
- Underground Railroad
- secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War
- dispatch
- killing a person or animal
- credit
- recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours
- crown fire
- a forest fire that advances with great speed jumping from crown to crown ahead of the ground fire
- wager
- the act of gambling
- congratulation
- the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration
- propulsion
- the act of propelling
- action potential
- the local voltage change across the cell wall as a nerve impulse is transmitted
- open-heart surgery
- heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open, the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine while a heart valve or coronary artery is surgically repaired
- Fifth Crusade
- a Crusade under papal control from 1218 to 1221 that achieved military victories but failed when dissension arose over accepting the terms they had been offered
- remonstration
- the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest
- sprinkling
- the act of sprinkling or splashing water
- flare
- a sudden recurrence or worsening of symptoms
- angelus bell
- the sound of a bell rung in Roman Catholic churches to announce the time when the Angelus should be recited
- accompaniment
- the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
- neutralisation
- (euphemism) the removal of a threat by killing or destroying it (especially in a covert operation or military operation)
- wilding
- an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women
- write-off
- the act of cancelling from an account a bad debt or a worthless asset
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