A mass accelerator propels a solid metal slug using precisely-controlled electromagnetic attraction and repulsion. The slug is designed to squash or shatter on impact, increasing the energy it transfers to the target. If this were not the case, it would simply punch a hole right through, doing minimal damage.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dogwood winter.

There are no penalties for teabagging, however, and other informal forms of hazing or humiliation.

For our own part we cannot but think that these legislative protections have a most demoralising tendency, and that the oftener they are resorted to the more feeble will the woman’s sense of self-reliance and her confidence in her own resources become, and the farther off, in consequence, will be that millennium of her bemittened and be-goggled champion when male and female shall stand on an equal footing in everything.