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...pursuer has thrown away his shield for the sake of speed; and his mount, still fresh, bites at the rump of the other. But it is his weapons of offense that the fleeing man has dropped to lighten the load on his horse; the useless shield still hangs by his thigh. And his foundering horse, whose drooped crest, breaking pace and running nostrils show it in extremity, bears out with unmistakable pathos the difference between the fortunes of the riders...
Because delivery is difficult, there are few live births in such cases; most liveborn joined twins die in infancy. But medical history records perhaps twoscore cases which have reached maturity, usually joined at or near the rump, where fewest organs are affected. Most famed were the Chinese brothers Chang and Eng. Because they were born (1811) in Siam, P. T. Barnum billed them as "The Siamese Twins," and the name has stuck to all their kind. Chang and Eng retired on their circus earnings to North Carolina, took the name of Bunker, married sisters (not twins), had many children...
...during World War II. The admiral and four generals who made up the court rejected Graziani's proud plea that he had simply done a soldier's duty. Graziani, they decided, had gone well beyond the call of duty when he joined Mussolini's German-supported rump government after Italy surrendered to the Allies...
Secret Orders. But one afternoon in early April top cabinet ministers held a rump meeting without the Sultan of West Borneo, sent a secret order to President Soekarno for signature. Then they went off to attend the local opening of the movie Joan...
...judge was tolerant. He interrupted the proceedings to point out a chair for a late-arriving spectator; he didn't mind when plump George Rogers, attorney for the defense, propped his leg or rump on the table during crossexamination...