Word: rumped
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...bear, following paw prints in the snow. The bear suddenly appears as a hint of movement, white against white, padding its way across the ice. The helicopter descends, hovering over the frightened creature, and a shotgun slides out the window, firing a tranquilizer dart into the massive fur-covered rump. Minutes pass. The bear shows no effects. The helicopter drops for a second shot. This time the bear stands its ground, and the pilot, fearing the animal is about to lunge for the aircraft, abruptly noses the chopper skyward. He remembers how a 9-ft. bear once swiped...
...American experts estimate the KGB's current size at 600,000 members, 265,000 of them border guards, 230,000 in military units, and 40,000 assigned to domestic surveillance. Foreign intelligence, the elite division, accounts for perhaps 20,000 operatives. The KGB of the future could be a rump organization, its feared sword blunted forever...
...always was -- an unnatural act and, almost inevitably, a temporary condition. Nazi war criminals could be hanged, but their nation could not be permanently drawn and quartered. The zones occupied by the Western Allies merged, naturally, into the Federal Republic within five years. East Germany was always a rump state, unnaturally dependent on an ideology and a reign of fear, both imposed by Moscow. The beginning of the end came last October, when Mikhail Gorbachev visited East Berlin and announced, almost in so many words, that Erich Honecker was on his own. For a Soviet puppet, that means...
...home to 147 million of its 289 million people, he holds a strong power base where he is now free to try his own more radical brand of reform. Even if the party does not split formally, Gorbachev could be left trying to implement perestroika through a rump dominated by moderates unable to keep pace with leftists outside the party...
...coming to a head. Helms' pressure has already forced the NEA to make arts-grant recipients pledge that they will do nothing obscene or indecent on Government money. Sometime in June the NEA's reauthorization and funding bills go to the House floor, where a vocal ultra- conservative rump, led by California Republican Dana Rohrabacher, will attempt to abolish the agency. Since the House will probably not go along -- George Bush has declared that he would not support such a bill -- the issue will come down to a fight over the further restriction of "obscene" content in NEA-funded work...