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However, during the FBI tests in 2022 at the agency’s lab in Quantico, Va., forensic analysts used a rawhide mallet to strike the gun so hard that components of the gun fractured.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2024
Metal ring bits adopted from the Spanish caused distinctive fractures in an animal’s teeth and palate; rawhide bridles developed by Native people wore telltale grooves in the lower jaw.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 29, 2023
Three days later, the campaign chiefs from Florida and Arizona were summoned to the Roosevelt Room, where Trump gnawed on them furiously like a dog with a length of old rawhide.
From Salon ● May 31, 2020
Mr. Kochever, 71, was recently standing over an odd assortment of football paraphernalia, all of it strewn throughout his bedroom: flags, dog masks, necklaces, rawhide bones.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2018
When the young Dawn came bright into the East spreading her finger tips of rose, Telemakhos, the king’s son, tied on his rawhide sandals and took the lance that bore his handgrip.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
For 15 minutes she rawhided the critic in German.
From Time Magazine Archive
Labor The two big-bodied, grim-faced men sat in their green-walled hotel suites in Washington and listened as the President rawhided them over the radio.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Ollie" Burke kidded and rawhided them into battle shape, turned his engines at 31 knots, dressed each ship with a new in-signe: the "Little Beaver," a character from Artist Fred Harman's comic strip Red Ryder.
From Time Magazine Archive
But they also knew him as a rawhiding commander who knew no friends.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, in a flood of intemperate language unmatched since his rawhiding of the striking railroad workers in 1946,* the President launched into an angry dressing-down of the whole steel industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Seldom had a top-rank businessman given business such a rawhiding.
From Time Magazine Archive
Krug remained silent; he suffered Lewis's rawhiding without complaint.
From Time Magazine Archive
But I was glad, sometimes, when he was rawhiding us into shape, that Magnus Thorkelson was drilling with a wooden gun.
From Vandemark's Folly by Herbert Quick
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