Word: rumped
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...found guilty of running a brothel. A heavy, padded belt was wrapped around his waist to protect his kidneys. An assistant painted a 2-in.-wide red stripe across the prisoner's buttocks to define the target zone; then the two floggers, alternating strokes, began to whack his rump. After each blow, the whipper would dance back a few steps; turning with acrobatic grace, he would twirl his cane like a drum major's baton and rush forward to strike the next blow. The victim's body writhed in agony with each fall of the cane...
...frustrated with the demands of Iran, Libya and Algeria, which were calling for a base price of at least $25 "to $26 per bbl., that he threatened to walk out of the conference. That led OPEC Chairman Mani Said Utaiba, of the United Arab Emirates, to convene a rump meeting in his private upstairs suite. It was during that gathering, at which Utaiba served dates from his home country and Arab spiced tea, that the compromise was struck...
Thawed scrod, microwaved rump steak...
...Crimson came back to close it to 37-33 at the intermission, prompting coach Frank McLaughlin to deliver a healthy spank to sparkplug Fine's rump as the squad entered the locker room. But Princeton quickly opened a ten-point lead in the second stanza, and the orangemen kept it there until the five-minute mark. And then they mopped...
...know I will not see an independent unified Cyprus in my lifetime," Makarios added, and he was right. In 1975 the Turks declared their own Turkish Federated State of Cyprus; last week the only notice this rump government took of Makarios' passing was to announce flatly that it would not recognize his successor as the leader of a united Cyprus...