A higher percentage of males had injured and/or shortened tails, and males had more severely bitten tails than females.
Males tended to be more severely bitten than females when the full 6-point scale was analysed (P = 0.07) and significantly when the simpler 2-point scale including 'no injury' and 'injury' was analysed (P = 0.02).
Certainly, the more hard-bitten members of the front-row fraternity have yet to bat a collective eyelid.
Rock culture wants no part of this story of middle-class arrivistes: it looks past Tin Pan Alley to other ancestors with more hard-bitten images and more colorful struggles.
Britain, after all, was ruled by a Conservative party whose more hard-bitten elements considered Mandela a dangerous untouchable and the anti-apartheid movement yet another leftist irritant.
Kraftwerk The Mix (1991) A work of sacrilege, according to the German faux-cyborgs' more hard-bitten disciples, though this retooling of their Greatest Hits was kept in-house, and was thus the model of subtlety and restraint.
When dandelions, the guinea pigs' favorite food, begin disappearing, munched to "nothing more than bitten-down stalks," it's up to Nibbles to rescue the last plant so new seeds can fly through the air, nearly 3-D, on a beautifully evocative spread.
"I feel more than snake-bitten," she said shortly before tears started streaming down her face as she was interviewed.
Mr. Arquette's cigarette-stained voice sounds deadpan but not hard-bitten; more often than not, he looks wide-eyed at what comes next, humbled by time served.
After the war, many street photographers assumed a stance that was more "cynical, hard-bitten and shot-through with irony," Mr. Ferguson writes in the exhibition catalog.
