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  • I found it near the bottom of the kit, a small key like any other, until you looked closer and saw the shaved-down grooves, designed to tickle the stacks of a tumbler lock until the driver pins separated from the key pins.

    AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE DAVID GOODWILLIE 2010

  • Yet maybe we're moving into a time when a shaved-down scalp will look best on a man and the politician's hair we've been seeing for the last quarter-century will look absurdly wig-like and repellent.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • Now, he did talk about the incident a couple of days ago when it was discovered that he had managed to smuggle in, to the courthouse, two shaved-down metal shanks, is what they're called, basically knives, makeshift knives, improvised knives he was able to smuggle into the courtroom in his shoes.

    CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2005 2005

  • The shaved-down remains on the door jamb of the original tomb owner, Itjefy (Y. Kobylecky)

    Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2006 - The Decorated Tombs of Hierakonpolis 2002

  • I love that man, as much as this shaved-down self I have become can love.

    Furious Gulf Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1994

  • Organizers have tried to simulate course conditions that players will see at Augusta National - fast greens, light rough, shaved-down runoff areas and fairways mowed toward the tees.

    statesman.com - Highschool 2010

  • Organizers have tried to simulate course conditions that players will see at Augusta National - fast greens, light rough, shaved-down runoff areas and fairways mowed toward the tees.

    Latest News www.northjersey.com 2010

  • Organizers have tried to simulate course conditions that players will see at Augusta National - fast greens, light rough, shaved-down runoff areas and fairways mowed toward the tees.

    Latest News www.northjersey.com 2010

  • Organizers have tried to simulate course conditions that players will see at Augusta National - fast greens, light rough, shaved-down runoff areas and fairways mowed toward the tees.

    SI.com 2010

  • Organizers have tried to simulate course conditions that players will see at Augusta National - fast greens, light rough, shaved-down runoff areas and fairways mowed toward the tees.

    statesman.com - Highschool 2010

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