Word: maiden
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...bare soles with a stick. A top official in radio and TV says he received so many beatings for trivial mistakes like being late for meetings or making grammatical errors on his broadcasts that Uday ordered him to carry a falaqa in his car. Uday also had an iron maiden that he used to torture Iraqi athletes whose performance disappointed...
...Persepolis shines. When Satrapi and her friends are handed veils to wear, they tie them together to make a jump rope. From her parents' vacation to Turkey, she asks them to bring back forbidden tokens of Western culture: a denim jacket, chocolate and posters of Kim Wilde and Iron Maiden, which they dutifully smuggle in the lining of a coat. After she is threatened by the Guardians of the Revolution on the street, who berate her for her sneakers and jacket, she locks herself in her bedroom and dances madly to Kids in America. But Satrapi does not neglect...
...athletes, especially members of the national soccer team who performed below his expectations. Last weekend TIME found tangible evidence of that torture. In the administrative compound of the Olympic committee in central Baghdad, hidden in a pile of leaves, was that must-have of every medieval dungeon, an iron maiden. The sarcophagus-shaped device, with spikes to pierce any unfortunate placed inside, was clearly worn from use. It lay on its side within view of Uday's first-floor offices in the soccer association. It was brought to TIME's attention by looters: they had stripped the site of anything...
...first solid proof of torture in Uday's own backyard - the administrative compound of the Olympic committee in central Baghdad. Laying on its side beneath a pile of dead leaves not 20 meters from Uday's office was a refugee from a medieval dungeon: an iron maiden. About two meters tall, a meter wide and just deep enough to contain a grown man, the iron sarcophagus-shaped device was worn from use; rusty three-inch nails lined the inside of its doors and walls, pointing inward; they'd lost some of their sharpness. A reporter who put the structure upright...
...sharpness. It lay on its side within view of Uday's first-floor offices in the soccer association. Ironically, the torture device was brought to TIME's attention by a group of looters who had been stripping the compound of anything of value. They had left behind the iron maiden, believing it to be worthless...