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After that, my father consulted with our mailman, who went to his truck and returned with a large cannister of mace.
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According to Chicago police, 53 people were arrested, and nine weapons were recovered—including guns, knives, tasers, and bear mace.
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Jung, who is going into his senior year of high school, said SmartBlink can detect pedestrians using wheelchairs, crutches or canes, too.
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An individual bush can grow up to 15 feet high and 40 feet long, with thick stems, also known as canes, marked by sharp, hooked thorns.
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The measure’s main backer is the SEIU United Health Workers West, whose president, Dave Regan, has a long track record of using ballot measures as a cudgel to win concessions from labor adversaries.
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Judges, attorneys, guardians and other court professionals have repeatedly used custody as a cudgel, according to some family court attorneys and advocates, punishing parents for their conduct by limiting their access to their children.
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The officers hit him with a baton and shocked him seven times.
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Somebody had dropped the baton.
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Hundreds of people crowded the runway to greet Ali, pushing against a cordon of soldiers armed with truncheons.
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For the Civil Rights Movement, Alabama troopers lifting truncheons to beat marchers crossing Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge.
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He was also accused of stabbing the boy with a knife, hitting him with a nightstick and slamming his head into a vehicle.
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No shots were fired, but many were struck with nightsticks and rifle butts, and about 250 were arrested.
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Iran practices honest bludgeon work.
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But Beshear hasn’t turned Trump-bashing into a 24/7 vocation, or a weight-lifting contest where the winner is the critic wielding the heaviest bludgeon.
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Also called billy button, sun ball, golf beauty, drumstick, and woolly head, craspedia stands out for its globe-like shape that sits atop a bare stem.
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And almost certainly cross $1 billion globally, with $2 billy still in its sights.
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“Knobkerrie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knobkerrie. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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