Word: flogging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is order in Belele and the surrounding desert because Major de Goltz creates it through simple brutality. His command is a native Mule Company of blacks, whom he keeps in line with regular floggings. In all the district his word is law, and since he is close to seven feet tall and can break a man's jaw with a swipe of his fist, he never gets any back talk. Others may want to leave Belele for a more civilized post, but not de Goltz. Half Dutch, half native, he knows that he has reached his peak...
...government takes a dim view of any such move. Although the China trade could become more important, Rome realizes that it will never amount to more than a fraction of Italy's trade with the West. Said one Italian official last week: "The Communists could conceivably flog their people to death to get money for foreign purchases. But how long can a market of that sort last...
Band music blared through halls and locker rooms. Gold lettering on the carved plaques was obscured by heavy chalk slashes, proclaiming: "Beat Yale!" The rubber floor matting announced "Flog the Dog" in foot-high adhesive tape letters. The casual visitor to Dillon Field House would have been overwhelmed. These exhortations, however, were not designed to impress the casual visitor with the atmosphere and spirit at Harvard. Rather, they were directed at the football team, this week going through the practice routine for the last time this season. They were not window dressing appeals to "The Old College Try," but instead...
...women are free as the birds Who fly from one nest to a neighbour's When the cream in one cup turns to curds We seek a new field for our labours. We can lecture or flog a golf ball, We can drink with themenfolk in parity, Party politics we overhaul And, boy, how we organize charity...
...Once, when the Sultan sent male servants to flog some women for "a peccadillo," the men "were conquered by their charms and, tossing aside the implements of torment, subjected the pretty victims to a more tender treatment." The monarch found them in flagrante delicto; the women were whipped while the Sultan laughed at their screams, then thrown into foul cells, where they were kept on starvation rations. The men were also whipped and then chained to the walls of their cells. All twelve were released when Ben Youssef was deposed as Sultan. Previous victims of similar punishments died in their...