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Deltoid, his " post-corrective advisor ," Alex meets a pair of ten-year-old girls and takes them back to his parents ' flat, where he administers hard drugs and then rapes them.
Other Japanese taiko include the " uchiwa-daiko " ( 団扇太鼓 、 fan taiko ), " hira-daiko " ( 平太鼓, flat taiko ), " minariisa-daiko " ( fun time drum ), " konisawa-daiko " ( tight / hard / tense drum ) and a host of percussion instruments used in Japan's traditional noh, gagaku, and kabuki ensembles.
Players are permitted to play the ball with the flat of the ' face side ' and with the edges of the head and handle of the field hockey stick with the exception that, for reasons of safety, the ball may not be struck ' hard ' with a forehand edge stroke, because of the difficulty of controlling the height and direction of the ball from that stroke.
The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched ( the original meaning of graffiti ) as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a waxed tablet ( the way Romans made notes ), or are in cuneiform writing, impressed with a pointed stylus in a flat tablet of unbaked clay.
However, eggs are laid on a flat piece of slate or other smooth hard material, to which they adhere.
Sometimes the entrances are simply flat holes in the ground, while at other times they are surrounded by mounds of soil either left as piles or packed down hard.
Tennis is played on a rectangular flat surface, usually of grass, clay, concrete ( hard court ) or a synthetic suspended court.
The resulting bread would have been lighter and tastier than the normal flat, hard cake.
; Kite landboarding: Similar to Kite Surfing but the kite is used to pull the rider along flat ground ( often a hard packed sandy beach ) on a mountainboard.
Such instruments usually have a fingerboard attached to the neck of the instrument, that provides a hard flat surface athe player can stop the strings against.
Pipemakers tune the chanter so the hard D is the in-tune note, the soft D usually being slightly flat.
To cut, as opposed to carve, a brick bolster is used ; this has a wide, flat blade that is tapped along the cut line to produce a groove, then hit hard in the centre to crack the stone.
It could be considered the precursor to the hard disk platter, but in the form of a drum rather than a flat disk.
The back is rubbed with a " hard pad, a flat piece of wood, a burnisher, or a leather frotton ".
A craftsman known as a ' Sugar boiler ' then proceeds to ' spin out ' the boiling onto a long flat surface, known as a ' slab ', where a ' rollers ' make sure it is kept rolling until it has ' set ' hard enough to maintain its round shape.
The fall line marks the geologic boundary of hard metamorphosed terrain — the product of the Taconic orogeny — and the sandy, relatively flat outwash plain of the upper continental shelf, formed of unconsolidated Cretaceous and Tertiary sediments.
The real curves are hard to detect visually giving the corrector plate the appearance of being an optically flat window.
While helicopters are able to operate on a variety of relatively flat surfaces, a fabricated helipad provides a clearly marked hard surface away from obstacles where a helicopter can land safely.
It is often a somewhat flat, rectangular-shaped bag with rounded / square corners, either metal, hard plastic or made of cloth, vinyl or leather that more or less keeps its shape.
Many modern suitcases have built-in small wheels enabling them to be pulled along on hard flat surfaces by a fixed or extendable handle or by a retractable or stowable leash.
Her flat forehand, devastating when hit hard, was considered her biggest weapon, especially when she was stretched out wide.
It experienced a severe winter in 1946 / 47 with over 150 cm of lying snow on flat ground recorded at Clawdd-newydd ( a nearby village ), and there was another hard winter in 1962 / 63.
The fruit is a flat, twisted legume ( pod ) long, containing several hard, dark brown seeds.
If a specular reflection from a hard flat surface is giving a problematic echo then an acoustic diffuser may be applied to the surface.

flat and cap
152-153 .</ ref > The moon and sun are likewise considered to be flat and floating on streams of air, and when the sun sets it does not pass under the earth but is merely obscured by higher parts of the earth as it circles around and becomes more distant ; the motion of the sun and the other celestial bodies around the earth is likened by Anaximenes to the way that a cap may be turned around the head .< ref > Fairbanks, Arthur.
A player can cap with as much as 80 % of his flat calling range when he knows he cannot be forced out of the pot and no opponent can make his hand appear much stronger by raising.
The intent of Iozzi was to replace the graphic of the line illustration of the man peering into the Nickelodeon with a period illustration of a boy in knickers, British flat cap, big suspenders, tip toed on a stylish iron train step looking into the Nickelodeon font.
Johnny Reb is usually pictured in gray wool uniform with the typical kepi-style forage cap made of wool broadcloth with a rounded, flat top, cotton lining, and leather visor.
He would pull his cap down over his face and hold a large flat brush over his head, and wedge his body diagonally in the flue.
In Scots the verb scon means to crush flat or beat with the open hand on a flat surface, and " scon-cap " or " scone-cap " refers to a man's broad flat cap or " bunnet ".
The pileus or cap of the original wild species is a pale grey-brown in color, with broad, flat scales on a paler background and fading toward the margins.
Suits also come with different numbers of pieces: a two-piece suit has a jacket and the trousers ; a three piece adds a waistcoat ; further pieces might include a matching flat cap.
Today, it is part of the traditional Irish folk costume, together with the flat cap, grandfather shirt, and Aran sweater.
The French word béret, from which the English term derives, is based on the Béarnais Berret ( a " sort of flat woollen cap, worn by the local peasants ".
A flat hammer spring cap was standard as well as the decock only ( G-Model ) feature and dovetailed front sight.
Guild thieves must wear appropriate clothing ( in the case of burglars this means an eye mask, a flat cap, a stripy jumper and a bag labelled " SWAG "; other specialities have their own uniforms ) and speak in thieves ' cant, or at least rhyming slang.
The kepi is a cap with a flat circular top and a visor ( American English ) or peak ( British English ).
Dick Berggren is known for wearing a flat cap
A flat cap, Dai cap, Golf cap, Ivy cap, Scally cap, " Grandpa Harrity cap " or, in Scotland, Bunnet is a rounded men's or women's cap with a small stiff brim in front.
When Irish and English immigrants came to the United States, they brought the flat cap with them.

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It was hotter once they reached the flat, and drier, but the grass was better.
The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.
The top of the sample was nearly flat and the bottom hemispherical.
It was the collage that made the terms of this dilemma clear: the representational could be restored and preserved only on the flat and literal surface now that illusion and representation had become, for the first time, mutually exclusive alternatives.
The first few days Bob Fogg set his plane down on Towne field back of the State House when the wind was right, and used Wilson flat above Barre when it wasn't.
Between the unsafe Towne field and the long roundabout back road haul that was necessary to gain access to Wilson flat, arrangements at the state capital were far from satisfactory.
O'Banion's reply was a raucous laugh and a flat refusal.
Ulyate and Kearton climbed on toward the sound of the barking of the dogs and the sporadic roaring of the lion, till they came, out of breath, to the crest, and peering through the branches of a bush, this is what Ulyate saw: Jones who had apparently ( and actually had ) ridden up the nearly impassable hillside, sitting calmly on his horse within forty feet of a full-grown young lioness, who was crouched on a flat rock and seemed just about to charge him, while the dogs whirled around her.
She was standing on a flat rock three feet above ground and when she saw him she rose to full height and roared, opening her mouth wide, lashing her tail, and stamping at the rock with both forefeet in irritation, as much as to say: `` How dare you disturb me in my sacred precinct ''??
There was a garage and a modern barn in the rear, all of it standing between two large flat fields planted in early potatoes.
Haydn's Sonata in E minor, which was unfailingly pleasant in sound, and Chopin's Sonata in B flat minor.
Her voice was flat and dull.
It was flat, definite.
According to the National Statistical Service, Armenia's trade deficit in 2006 was $ 1. 2 billion with growth in exports being largely flat.
He was British flat racing Champion Owner thirteen times.
Air felted to create the flat disk of the earth, which he said was table-like and behaved like a leaf floating on air.
He had noticed, says Polybius, a “ place between the two camps, flat indeed and treeless, but well adapted for an ambuscade, as it was traversed by a water-course with steep banks, densely overgrown with brambles and other thorny plants, and here he proposed to lay a stratagem to surprise the enemy ”.
Cosmas Indicopleustes in the 6th century AD wrote of Atlantis in his Christian Topography in an attempt to prove his theory that the world was flat and surrounded by water:
They include two concertos for pianoforte, one in C major and one in B flat major, ( both 1773 ); a concerto for organ in C Major in two movements, ( the middle movement is missing from the autograph score, or perhaps, it was an improvised organ solo ) ( also 1773 ); two concertante works: a concerto for oboe, violin and cello in D major ( 1770 ), and a flute and oboe concerto in C major ( 1774 ).
Using F for the drag force, ρ for the density, S for the area of the flat plate, V for the flow velocity, and θ for the inclination angle, his law was expressed as
While tests have been done to support this with fixed pieces of flat metal, the result is inconclusive with respect to the curved armour of the period. Given the following actions of the archers, it seems likely Froissart was correct.
Penrose ’ s shocking conclusion, though, was that obtaining a flat universe without inflation is much more likely than with inflation – by a factor of 10 to the googol ( 10 to the 100 ) power !”

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