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  • "He got sliced up pretty good on a headball," interim coach Ben Olsen said.

    D.C. United news & notes 2010

  • Stopa looked up at the great shining headpiece of the truncheon which Feric held before his face, a headball carved in the likeness of a hero's fist, with a swastika signet ring on the third finger.

    And now, from SF Hall-of-Famer Adolf Hitler . . . Douglas Hoffman 2005

  • Stopa looked up at the great shining headpiece of the truncheon which Feric held before his face, a headball carved in the likeness of a hero's fist, with a swastika signet ring on the third finger.

    Archive 2005-06-01 Douglas Hoffman 2005

  • With its own tentacles it stroked the other's scent receptors or touched briefly certain of the pits on the cobaltic's headball.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • Hassan picked up the first image and saw again the headball turned against the grain of that agitated crowd.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • I have identified seventy-three eigenface dimensions for the Batinite headball.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • The red targeting spot wavered across the alien's headball.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • Mizir, entranced by the ritual, made careful note of which pits were touched on a sketch of the headball.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • The Batinite headball cannot show expression, at least no expression that humans can read.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • He turned his attention to the screen just as the soldier ran its tentacles across the fronds of the taller one's headball and then ... inserted those tentacles into its own mouth.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

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