Word: midriffs
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...Split at Midriff. Khalil is a soldier turned politician. A onetime brigadier in the Sudan Defense Force under the British, he fought at Gallipoli in World War I, in the western desert and Italy in World War II. As a politician, he presides over a constituency that is one of the world's most complex. The Sudan is nearly four times as large (967,500 sq.mi.) as Texas, has a population (10.2 million) less than that of the New York metropolitan area. From Wadi Haifa, astride the Nile at the Egyptian border, the Sudan stretches south 1,250 miles...
...unmarked line that divides Moslem Africa from Negro Africa (generally put at 12° north of the equator) splits the Sudan at its midriff, subjects the fledgling country to the tensions of both. In the swampy south and in Kordofan live the eccentric Nuers (who stand for hours, like cranes or herons, on one leg), the equally naked Nuba (whose chief adornments are grotesque, cicatrized tribal scars on cheeks and foreheads), and, along the Red Sea coast, the mop-haired Hadendowa (Kipling's Fuzzy-Wuzzies, who "broke a British square"). Inevitably, the primitive southerners distrust and dislike their more...
...foreigners resisted-not even the German woman who was told off by police for wearing toreador pants and bare midriff, nor the American girl in a bikini chased from the Fountain of Trevi. But Communist newspapers raised a hue and cry about "clerical intolerance," and some of Italy's leading non-Communist papers joined in. Said Turin's liberal La Stampa: "The truth is, not many Italians are horrified by the sight of a girl in shorts." Added the largest newspaper in Italy, Milan's conservative Corriere della Sera, "They are proposing tourism in long pants...
...student for a chance to prove his contention that "we Japanese are more skillful with our hands than Westerners." Last week, with his abdomen tense and sore, he knew that the eagerly hoped-for day had arrived. Staggering into an operating room, he got a nurse to sterilize his midriff and hands, help him into a sterile smock and mask. Then he clambered onto the operating table. When Chief Surgeon Mikio Takahashi protested, Dr. Ohmura replied: "I have only one appendix; it's my only chance...
...instant the entire police force was in hippopotamous pursuit. Horses bolted; pedestrians bounced like skittles. But just as the long arm of the law was on his shoulder, the fugitive took a flying leap at the tummy of a startled fat lady. As he hit head first, her midriff split up the middle and swung inward like saloon doors. The fugitive plunged through-and disappeared...