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They are hardened and tempered at the cutting edge while the head is left soft so it will not crack when hammered.
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They could attack area targets like cities, but could not reliably and accurately attack precision strike targets like enemy bomber bases, hardened command and control centers, naval bases, or weapons storage areas.
They had casings of high grade steel, much stronger than the typical WWII bomb so that they would survive hitting a hardened surface, or penetrate deep into the ground.
They are pale when immature, but later become hardened and yellowed as a layer of lignin is deposited on their walls.
They usually form early in the burial history of the sediment, before the rest of the sediment is hardened into rock.
They have complete infrastructure of hardened shelters, control towers, workshops, ordnance depots etc.
They are usually environmentally hardened packages with power supply protection and robust memory file systems that greatly improve reliability and task efficiency.
They were brutal and violent in dealing with London's hardened criminals, and prone to cutting corners and bending laws.
They are common to the Indigenous Australians but also other peoples worldwide and normally consist of little more than a sturdy stick which has been shaped or sharpened and perhaps hardened by being placed temporarily in a fire.
They are both self-serving, hardened individuals who view the accumulation of money as the most important thing in life.
They are not intended for use on hardened steel hex nuts or other fittings because they would ruin the head ; however, if a hex nut is soft enough that it becomes rounded beyond use with standard wrenches, a pipe wrench is sometimes used to break the bolt or nut free.
They can live out of water for many months in burrows of hardened mud beneath a dried-up stream bed.
They had created a gooey substance that once hardened, could not be broken or destroyed without great effort.
They had improved the accurate manufacture of die-cut screws in soft metal and solved the problem of thread-grinding on hardened work.
They were organized around small cadres of hardened veteran soldiers, NCOs and officers and then bulked out with anything the Replacement Army could get its hands on.
They end up unknowingly involved in a plot to smuggle a van constructed completely out of " fiberweed " ( hardened THC resin derived from marijuana-a play on the word " fiberglass ") from Mexico to Los Angeles, with an inept police narcotics unit, led by the overly zealous Sgt.
They began forming some 70, 000 years ago, and most have eroded away leaving plugs of unerupted hardened magma that form rounded hilltops known as puys.
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