Word: navel
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...almsgivers, the navel-gazers...
Doubtless the young Viceroy Faisal has learned on his two recent trips to England that El Surrah, the navel, is taboo among moderns. Last week he could point with pride to the demolition of the entire "tomb," and to the removal among the debris of El Surrah...
...things to emphasize in the navel disarmament problem is that the conflict is not merely Anglo-American, as most people suppose, but that it concerns the entire world...
Sharkey, the talkative, was known to be tender of stomach. Dempsey, crouched and persistent, concentrated his hammering on Sharkey's ribs and navel. Sharkey's jabs and swings rained on Dempsey's grimly contorted face, opening wet cuts under both eyes, abrading the truculent...
...Gregory Novihh, the "man of god" who was nicknamed Rasputin ("The Debauchee") and who perhaps "caused" as much as anyone the fall of the Romanovs. His power over the Tsar and Tsarina was due to the fact that their only son, Alexis, was a hemophile, bled profusely at the navel on the slightest provocation. Doctors were powerless to stop the bleeding; but Rasputin contrived to do so, by what means will per haps never be known. He was too clever to show his debauched nature to the Tsar, who saw in him the daily savior of the Tsarevitch Alexis...