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rifle and cracked
Montero's rifle cracked.
From above me and somewhere behind me, a rifle cracked.
As Aramov reads the note, a rifle with a cracked scope appears, which reveals that Stone is sent to assassinate Aramov.

rifle and ;
Oso slept unconcernedly, his rifle cradled in his arms ; ;
Bill Ruger's long-awaited Deerstalker ( under $110 ) is a new rifle action in a caliber that upsets all the modern theory of high-velocity fans ; ;
Hoag pushed open the door: at the far end of the long dark room Muller was faintly silhouetted against the window, the rifle still raised ; ;
Muller, nakedly exposed at the bright window like a deer pinned in a car's headlights, threw down the rifle and turned to jump from the table ; ;
Another myth describes Polish cavalry as being armed with both sabres and lances ; lances were used for peacetime ceremonial purposes only and the primary weapon of the Polish cavalryman in 1939 was a rifle.
His command positions included: commanding officer of a platoon and two rifle companies during two tours of duty in Vietnam ; commanding officer of Special Training Branch and Recruit Series at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California ( 1966 – 1968 ); commanding officer of Counter-Guerilla Warfare School, Northern Training Area on Okinawa ( 1970 ), Company officer at the United States Naval Academy ( 1970 – 1973 ); commanding officer of the Marine Barracks at Naval Air Station North Island, California ( 1973 – 1976 ), and commanding officer, 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines ( 1983 – 1985 ).
In the United States, the assault rifle design was later in coming ; the replacement for the M1 Garand of WWII was another John Garand design chambered for the new 7. 62 × 51mm NATO cartridge ; the select-fire M14, which was used by the U. S. military until the 1960s.
Some commercial cartridges ( notably Sellier & Bellot ) use large rifle primers that are thinner than the SAAMI standards common in the United States, and will not permit seating a Boxer primer manufactured to U. S. standards ; the use of a primer pocket uniformer tool on such brass avoids setting Boxer primers high when reloading, which would be a safety issue.
Alexander Orlov ( born Leiba Feldbin ; code-name Swede ), Philby's controller in Madrid, who had once met him in Perpignan, France, with the bulge of an automatic rifle clearly showing through his raincoat, also defected.
His opponent barely missed killing Carson with his rifle shot ; it grazed below his left ear and scorched his eye and hair.
This weapon, influenced by the M1 Garand rifle, lost out to the new Simonov carbine which would be eventually adopted as the SKS ; but it became a basis for his entry in an assault rifle competition in 1946.
The M16A2 is a select-fire rifle ( semi-automatic fire, three-round-burst fire ) incorporating design elements requested by the Marine Corps: an adjustable, windage rear-sight ; a stock longer ; heavier barrel ; case deflector for left-hand shooters ; and cylindrical handguards.
The M16A4 rifle was standard issue for the United States Marine Corps in Operation Iraqi Freedom since 2004 ; it replaced the M16A2 in front line units.
The M16 rifle is principally manufactured by Colt and Fabrique Nationale de Herstal ( under a U. S. military contract since 1988 by FNH-USA ; currently in production since 1991, primarily M16A2, A3, and A4 ), with variants made elsewhere in the world.

cracked and ;
Twigs cracked loudly under her feet ; ;
" Bob was in blackface and was the comic ; he cracked jokes, sang, and did an amazing jig dance.
When Nicholas Elliott met Philby in late 1962, the first time since Golitsyn's defection, he found Philby too drunk to stand, and with a bandaged head ; he had fallen repeatedly and cracked his skull on a bathroom radiator, requiring stitches.
Special nibble-copy programs such as Locksmith and Copy II Plus could sometimes duplicate these disks by using a reference library of known protection methods ; when protected programs were cracked they would be completely stripped of the copy protection system, and transferred onto a standard format disk that any normal Apple II copy program could read.
Raw wheat can be ground into flour or, using hard durum wheat only, can be ground into semolina ; germinated and dried creating malt ; crushed or cut into cracked wheat ; parboiled ( or steamed ), dried, crushed and de-branned into bulgur also known as groats.
In 2001, it was reported that employees of the Memorial Gardens cemetery near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida had oversold the cemetery, so bodies were buried in the wrong places, separating husbands from wives ; vaults were cracked open by a backhoe ; bodies were exhumed, with bones, skulls and shrouds thrown into nearby woods ; bodies were stacked on top of each other ; and remains were relocated without notifying relatives.
In 2004, visits by the public were completely suspended due to renovations ; some of the stone used in the original construction was weak and has cracked over the years causing structural problems within the building.
There is no evidence that breast-feeding spreads HCV ; however, to be cautious, an infected mother is advised to avoid breastfeeding if her nipples are cracked and bleeding, or her viral loads are high.
Chisholm is seen levitating above cracked mud inside a room with wooden walls as the floor blooms into plant life ; she represents earth.
However, like willows, poplars have very vigorous and invasive root systems stretching up to 40 m from the trees ; planting close to houses or ceramic water pipes may result in damaged foundations and cracked walls and pipes due to their search for moisture.
It is uncertain how the bell came to be cracked ; the damage occurred sometime between 1817 and 1846.
The first bronze cast was lost when the mold cracked ; a second statue was cast in February 1859 — after Montferrand's death.
Historian Taylor Branch implied that Clinton had requested changes to Branch's 2009 Clinton biography, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President, regarding Clinton's revelation that the Lewinsky affair began because " I cracked ; I just cracked.
* khai nug: egg is cracked with a little hole at one end ; contents poured out scrambled with spices and pour back in to egg shell and steamed
The result was six singles released by Next Plateau Records, several of which became hits: " Expression " ( US # 26, UK # 40 in 1990, UK # 23 in 1992 ), a platinum single that had been certified gold before it even cracked the US Hot 100 as it had already been # 1 on the R & B Chart for 8 weeks, and produced by Salt ; " Independent "; " I Don't Know " ( featuring Kid N Play ); " Do You Want Me " ( US # 21, UK # 5 ), certified gold ; " Let's Talk About Sex " ( US # 13, UK # 2 ), certified gold, and later re-recorded as " Let's Talk About Aids "; and " You Showed Me " ( UK # 15 ).

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