More-advanced techniques, however, began about 1 million years ago; rather than simply smashing the rock against a boulder, a soft hammer (usually antler) began to be used.
Sometimes she doesn't even trouble herself with metaphor: twice — on "Everybody" and "Locked Up" — the word "love" is rendered in triplicate, a soft hammer of feeling.
A powerful painkiller has brought "its soft hammer to bear on his habit of silence," so that stories of his exploits, failures, and secrets emerge in a non-chronological, occasionally cartoonish manner.
The early appearance in South Africa of many innovations, such as sophisticated knapping techniques (e.g. the use of soft hammer or indirect percussion in blade production, of composite tools, of microlithic and bladelet technologies) remains to be established through technological analysis.
The second method was the soft-hammer, or baton, technique, based on a discovery of perhaps 500,000 years ago that hard rock (flint in particular) could be chipped by striking it with a softer material.
"Bom Sao Joao!" - "Happy St. John!" - the gray-haired man beamed as he hit me back, the circus-like squeaks of our soft plastic hammers inducting me into the celebration of Porto's patron saint.
Tap lightly on the fastener with a soft faced hammer or using a wood block to protect the fastener and shaft if you use a conventional hammer, while applying moderate pressure with the pry bar or screwdriver.
No one seems to know the origins of hitting people on the head with a leek, but when I was finally thwacked painfully around the ear, I realised why the softer plastic hammers have become the preferred mode of attack.
Remove the pinion gear by tapping the threaded end with a soft faced hammer.
