Word: barings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mournful dirge. The penitents, sitting in rough circles, begin to pound their chests in a powerful rhythm amplified by a hundred chest cavities. Deep and as resonant as a heartbeat, the sound gradually changes tenor as thin cotton shirts split with the force of repeated blows and palms slap bare skin. Men wail...
...often lethargic standards of troops fighting long-running jungle wars, this N.P.A. platoon seems hyperactive. At 4 a.m., hours before daybreak, its soldiers are performing drills and martial arts in flip-flops and bare feet, then practicing grenade throwing with rocks from a nearby river. Their entire week is plotted out: from Monday to Friday, there's military and medical training, plus basic education and indoctrination sessions; weekends are devoted to food production and cultural activities. Even off duty, the platoon stays on message, gathering around a guitar to sing rebel songs or-possibly for the benefit of the platoon...
...enterprise for a woman, but it’s hardly as if men relish exposing their own delicate parts to the perilous January air. Yet for women, taking part is seen as either an outspoken statement of liberation or as providing a special opportunity for voyeurs to gape at bare female anatomy. By contrast, for men, it’s just a bit of a laugh...
...That sprint, however brief, was a respite from an otherwise self-conscious existence. I regularly bare my soul to thousands online. But it wasn’t until I bared everything else that I made peace with my harshest critic: myself...
...caught my first glimpse of bare-skinned bodies on a frigid January night, it occurred to me that this was a bit of an impotent release of sexual tension. After being bottled up so long, we emerge from Lamont and Widener, and an intrepid few run naked in the freezing cold. No one touches. Meanwhile, the rest of us watch, giggling like schoolchildren who have just heard someone say “penis...