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brass balls



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Perhaps the brass balls and the aggressive workplace behavior are just quirks of Tepper’s personality and not a sign of something deeper.

From The Guardian May 17, 2018

Minute in detail yet allowing freeform progress in each playthrough, X-COM is an oft-terrifying game about facing an alien invasion that depends on brass balls as much as careful plotting.

From The Guardian Jun. 3, 2014

The base was X-shaped, walnut-sized brass balls studding the ring where the metallic legs crossed.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

“No war here. You could really do it. A pair of solid brass balls, that’s all you’d need.”

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

Where the table’s legs crossed like an X, there was a ring of brass balls, each walnut-sized.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini




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