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bastinado

 (n): a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
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6 months ago John said:

"Mr. McCain is a bit of a girlie-man when it comes to waterboarding high-value detainees; but that’s a tricky one, even for macho, red-meat conservative chest-thumpers. You get a pass on that one if you’ve spent five-and-a-half years being bastinadoed by North Vietnamese."
- The New York Times, February 19, 2008

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