Word: posteriority
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...good food. Unlike most of them, he has been able to indulge the taste consistently for many years and possesses respectable ebonpoint to prove it. Yet if ever a man had cause to pick nervously at his victuals, that man is Francisco Franco. This week his well-padded posterior is planted on one of the hottest governmental hot seats in all the world. And the main question facing him is not whether he can ease the situation, but whether he can stay there at all, and how long...
...always asking me what I do in nightclubs. 'Don't be stupid,' I reply, 'I get stinko!'. . . This morning ... I did something more. I sat in a seat in the Champagne Room at El Morocco which was still warm from having held the posterior of the ex-King of England. . . . Although the seat had rubbed and been rubbed by royalty, in a quite literal sense, I didn't notice when I rubbed it, and it rubbed me, that it felt different than any other seat. However, it may be that I am insensitive...
...Relaxed Approach. Contradicting most other teachers, who favor fencing flatfooted, Nadi makes his pupils raise the left heel in readiness to spring, insists that they practice before a mirror to correct "a jutting posterior." He tolerates no idle questions from pupils during lessons, describes with admiration how a stern old master taught the late great French fencer Kirchhoffer to relax. The master used to put Kirchhoffer on guard, then go away. After several minutes he would return, feel Kirchhoffer's arm, exclaim : "Your arm is tense. You will never be a fencer...
...Moatsie get out of Russia. But Moatsie's "cold grey" eyes showed her determination to "fight to the last ditch." She had come a long, tough way. At Tokyo's Imperial Hotel the roughness of the bathtub had left, she said ruefully, a "waffle design" on her posterior. Later, she had caught influenza. Her lipstick had run out. She was without holeless silk stockings. But when Steinhardt told her she had been "spoiled rotten by [her] parents" she replied "with gibes even more cutting...
Backstroke. In Williams Field, Ariz., hospital attendants applied an eight-inch-square bandage to the posterior of Private John Fain, who had killed a fly with a razor while he was shaving in the nude...