They had learned that Jenkins hired a two-bit gumshoe named Thomas ("Papa Bear") Miller--a New Orleans operative with a long, sometimes violent criminal record.
Several of the book's 11 stories are set in Elk Tooth, a two-bit town of three bars and 80 residents, many with mouth-clogging names: Gilbert Wolfscale, Hard Winter Ulph, Wiregrass Cokendall.
The second of them, who would be George VI, suffers at times from a terrible stammer and this is the story of his corrective instruction at the hands of a two-bit Australian expat actor, Lionel Logue.
Yet in this case, it's not a liter of liquor but a container of urine from Blake's long drive -- a sign of his degradation, emptied in a slosh of yellow liquid in the parking lot of the next crummy stop on his two-bit road tour: It's the by-product of a man pissing his life away.
The Ryos is the first gaming keyboard ever that features per-key lighting and up to two 32-bit ARM cortex processors.
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"In the two-and-a-bit years that I've been playing here we've had some great games against each other and some tight games, " said Hewat.
From the end of 2008 to the spring of this year - so during the course of a bit more than two years - the debt of British companies fell from 122% of GDP to 109%, and the debt of households fell rather less, from 102% of GDP to 97% of GDP.
We're definitely down with more options too, but without an acceptable two-way standard, a bit of wheelin' and dealin' by Google could just add more noise to the mess that is the connected TV market.
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The Wales and Ospreys record try-scorer had only been on the pitch for four minutes - returning after more than two months out following shoulder surgery - when a trademark bit of magic set up Walker's try.
Shot points occur every 10-15 seconds, and after each one the hydrophones record a 24-bit signal every two milliseconds.
The two Houston-based companies have been bit players at the trial, which has centered on the actions and decisions of employees of energy giant BP, rig owner Transocean Ltd. and cement contractor Halliburton.
England's players applauded Caddick off the field after his display - a major contrast to his last tour of the West Indies two winters ago when he was regarded as a bit-part player.
If you can wait a bit, two Posterous co-founders are working on a new project called Posthaven.
It's a bit like having a two-camera film crew follow you around.
Lurking behind these debatable unemployment statistics - and there is an interesting bit of fact-checking here - are the two undisputable and, perhaps, unsustainable facts of South Africa's economy: Too few people paying tax, and too many receiving welfare payments .
The pair were two of Hef's many girlfriends for a bit and starred as two of his three main live-in squeezes during the E!
Reading mode and Smart Remote are clearly the Note 8.0's two biggest software features, but to make the tab just a bit more alluring, Samsung's pre-loading two other applications suited to the Note 8.0's form and function.
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Within two days, Google had swapped its 512-bit key for one that was 2048 bits long.
Further, the site says the revamped on-screen menus with two columns of options make the camcorder's on-screen controls a fair bit faster and easier to access.
Driving the rear wheels via a sophisticated seven-speed automatic transmission, the two power sources make the S400 feel every bit as lively as the conventional S550 version with its 382-horsepower V8 engine.
It is written in an elegant, clerical hand, on four sheets of parchment, each two feet wide and a bit more than two feet high, about the size of an eighteenth-century newspaper but finer, and made not from the pulp of plants but from the hide of an animal.
While the first of those actually pre-dates the others by quite a bit, it most certainly was re-energized by the latter two.
It was a bit frustrating early but they were two-for at tea and now they're nine down.
Two well-known luxury jewelry brands are playing a bit of musical chairs with their stores in New York.
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Earlier this week, the Council of Mortgage Lenders said the main effect of FLS so far was to make fixed-rate mortgage deals, which account for about two-thirds of all new mortgage borrowing, a bit cheaper than before.
Since 1900, there have been about a dozen (give-or-take one or two because some tracks are a bit ambiguous) that have made landfall in the U.S. north of Hatteras, having acquired a westerly motion component.
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For now, those two factors are holding the potentially profit-busting trend back a bit.
Single barrel is a bit of a misnomer because it is a two-stage aging process.
"They did play very well and were probably a bit unlucky or not decisive maybe in the two boxes - the defensive box and the offensive box - where you need to be very clinical, " added Di Matteo of the Baggies' relegation.
However, after a bit of time -- about a day or two -- we got used to the fact that it's really just a regular mouse that not only sways in all different directions, but also floats your hand in the air a bit.
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