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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
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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
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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.
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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
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I love that man, as much as this shaved-down self I have become can love.
Furious Gulf Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1994
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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