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half-man and turned
When Mercer looked on helplessly, the half-man twisted over on his side, his pink dusty back turned to Mercer, and wept hoarsely and quietly to himself.
In the episode, Homer buys a magic hammock that can create duplicates of anyone who lies in it in " Send in the Clones "; Lisa's call to end gun violence resurrects undead outlaws in " The Fright to Creep and Scare Harms "; and Dr. Hibbert invites everyone in Springfield to his island resort where everyone is turned into half-man, half-animal mutants in " The Island of Dr. Hibbert ".

half-man and face
Narasimha is often visualized as half-man / half-lion, having a human-like torso and lower body, with a lion-like face and claws.
Some examples include his first film role in Quest for Fire, where he played a neanderthal, The Name of the Rose where he plays a disfigured hunchback, Beauty and The Beast, where he played Vincent, a man with the face of a half-man half-lion-like beast, The Island of Dr. Moreau where he plays a half man / half animal, Star Trek Nemesis in which he is the Reman viceroy and the Hellboy films where he plays the titular demon.

half-man and at
Mercer did not know what an `` Earth-week '' was, since he had not been a well-read man before his conviction, but he got nothing more from the half-man at that time.
He then demanded that, at nine-year intervals, seven Athenian boys and seven Athenian girls were to be sent to Crete to be devoured by the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster that lived in the Labyrinth created by Daedalus.
Icarus's father Daedalus, a talented and remarkable Athenian craftsman, built the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete near his palace at Knossos to imprison the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster born of his wife and the Cretan bull.
He was supposed to be reborn as a human, but ends up in the womb of a female boar due to an error at the Reincarnation Wheel, which turns him into a half-man half-pig monster.

half-man and Mercer
The half-man woke, recognized Mercer and gave him a healthily sleepy grin.

half-man and !
O Lord Hari, who have assumed the form of half-man, half-lion!

received and implant
XPS is a surface chemical analysis technique that can be used to analyze the surface chemistry of a material in its " as received " state, or after some treatment, for example: fracturing, cutting or scraping in air or UHV to expose the bulk chemistry, ion beam etching to clean off some of the surface contamination, exposure to heat to study the changes due to heating, exposure to reactive gases or solutions, exposure to ion beam implant, exposure to ultraviolet light.
It is part of a collection acquired by the National Museum in 2009 and includes key elements that figured in the development of the bionic ear, including the prototype multi-channel cochlear implant received by Rod Saunders in 1978 ( subsequently removed when it was replaced by an updated model ).
In contrast, children who got their implants at age 2½ years or later did not respond as well to the later second implant, regardless of when they received it.
British Member of Parliament Jack Ashley received a cochlear implant in 1994 at age 70 after 25 years of deafness, and reported that he has no trouble speaking to people he knows ; whether one on one or even on the telephone, although he might have difficulty with a new voice or with a busy conversation, and still had to rely to some extent on lip reading.
In Judge Dredd Megazine # 218-20, Mean Machine received a cranial cybernetic implant called a Warden Device, which delivers extreme pain whenever he gets angry, so he could be released into society to marry Iso-cube visitor Porsha Wuss.
He received a cochlear implant in 1993 which restored much of his hearing.
His hearing loss was somewhat restored by a cochlear implant he received during a surgery at the New York University Medical Center in 1994.
A company controlled by Dobelle, Avery Biomedical Devices, and Stony Brook University are continuing development of the implant, which has not yet received Food and Drug Administration approval for human implantation in the United States.
Although intended only for testing tolerance to electrical stimulation, many of the patients said they received so much relief from the TENS itself that they never returned for the implant.
First reports on critical periods came from deaf children and animals that received a cochlear implant to restore hearing.
The implant uses the received power / data to convert the digital data to an analog output which will be delivered to the nerve via micro electrodes.
Also this high amount of information must be received and processed by the implant without much power dissipation which can damage the tissue.
While the other Grapplers received superhuman strength, Mimi instead had her vocal enhancements internalized as a throat implant ; it was once believed that Mimi had also gained superhuman strength, but it was established after the fact in the Thunderbolts series that this was not the case.

received and turned
" The Lita Grey affair was soon forgotten, but Chaplin was deeply affected by it: the stress of the ordeal turned his hair white, and both his second wife and The Circus received only a passing mention in his autobiography.
The king and his mayor then turned to besiege their other rival in the city and took it and the treasury, and received the recognition of both Chilperic as king and Ragenfrid as mayor.
While Day turned down a tribute offer from the American Film Institute, she received and accepted the Golden Globe's Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in 1989.
While he volunteered for militia service in 1757 in response to French movements resulting in the Siege of Fort William Henry, his unit received word while en route that the fort had fallen, and turned back.
Xanadu was turned into a surprising hit Broadway Musical that opened on 10 July 2007 at the Helen Hayes Theatre to uniformly good reviews and received 4 Tony Award nominations.
Having treated with both parties, and received lavish promises from them, he appears to have hoped to be Emperor himself ; but when the election came, he turned to the winning side and voted for Charles.
In 1939, Pius XII turned the Vatican into a centre of aid which he organized from various parts of the world At the request of the Pope, an information office for prisoners of war and refugees operated in the Vatican under Giovanni Battista Montini, which in the years of its existence from 1939 until 1947 received almost 10 million ( 9, 891, 497 ) information requests and produced over 11 million ( 11, 293, 511 ) answers about missing persons.
The two met at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and the conversation turned to juvenile delinquent gangs, a fairly recent social phenomenon that had received major coverage on the front pages of the morning newspapers due to a Chicano turf war.
Then he turned against Makan with whom he had at first concluded a treaty after having received his support against Asfar.
He then turned to face Thatcher: " The Prime Minister, shortly after she came into office, received a sobriquet as the " Iron Lady ".
After Webster turned down the vice presidential candidacy, Millard Fillmore received the party's nomination for Vice President.
( Dana Andrews ' brilliant performance turned out to be overshadowed by the acclaim Fredric March and Harold Russell received.
Benigni has reportedly received offers to bring his Dante show to Broadway, all of which he has turned down.
The imprisonment of Eleanor is lightly dealt with, and the story of her crown is turned to the advantage of Bacon, who is said to have received the crown as a gift to secure funding for the publishing of his last great book, Liber de retardatione, concerning old age and its amelioration though the sciences.
Afterwards, though, he turned his attention toward mathematics and physics and received a degree in physics.
Cook then turned northward to look for French Southern and Antarctic Lands, of the discovery of which he had received news at Cape Town, but from the rough determination of his longitude by Kerguelen, Cook reached the assigned latitude 10 ° too far east and did not see it.
He initially came to the West as a Northern Indian classical musician, having received the honorific " Tansen " from the Nizam of Hyderabad, but he soon turned to the introduction and transmission of Sufi thought and practice.
Moreover, the Soviet Union turned over all of their captured Japanese weapons and a substantial amount of their own supplies to the Communists, who received Northeastern China from the Soviets as well.
Edwin Schallert for the Los Angeles Times praised Davis's performance in Mr. Skeffington ( 1944 ), while observing, " the mimics will have more fun than a box of monkeys imitating Miss Davis ", and Dorothy Manners at the Los Angeles Examiner said of her performance in the poorly received Beyond the Forest ( 1949 ), " no night club caricaturist has ever turned in such a cruel imitation of the Davis mannerisms as Bette turns on herself in this one ".
Jeppesen's early efforts at composition were poorly received and he turned away from composition in 1919, only to resume after a fifteen year hiatus.
In the days following the state coup of August 23, 1944, when Romania turned against Nazi Germany and participated in the war along with the Allies, the song received heavy radio broadcast.
Vittoria, who was hastening to tend him, received the news of his death at Viterbo ; she halted and turned off to Rome, and after a brief stay, departed for Ischia, where she remained for several years.
Gifts and income received from outside were turned over to the common treasury.
In numerous letters, Jessica has stated that Romilly served in the RCAF, and that her daughter received a pension from the Canadian government from the date of his death until she turned 18.

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