But now we are more than familiar with the object, seeing it used for both business and entertainment purposes.
They see sport as merely games that are played with the object of winning, which is not the goal of art.
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For those unfamiliar with the object, the caber is a heavy pole, or log, about the length and girth of a telephone pole.
Shopper and witness Tianna Doan told the newspaper the employee was a cashier who was hit with the object and had a head injury.
The meeting failed to revive the so-called Lisbon agenda, a reform programme put forward five years ago with the object of making the EU the most competitive economy in the world by 2010.
In the end, we all outlast the object of our adoration, perhaps because passion runs its course more swiftly than other human emotions, perhaps as a result of excessive familiarity with the object of desire.
Milan police said Berlusconi's attacker hit him with a small metal souvenir replica of the Doumo di Milano, the city's central cathedral, but it was not immediately clear whether the man swung at the prime minister with the object in his hand or threw it at him.
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The irresistible force of Fed money-printing collides with the immovable object of a great correction in the smash-up, the debris flies in every direction, giving us a bewildering, mixed-up picture that looks a lot like stagflation.
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Why do some of our dreariest journalists spend all their time writing about Goldman Sachs, except to associate themselves with the status object they attack in order to raise their own status?
The 25-year-old Brighton woman, who had arranged to meet a friend on the seafront, was hit in the face with an object as she tried to pass the crowds.
Even with the ability to object to pay packages, compensation committees make no changes.
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There are moments brief, valuable moments of exploration, discovery and fun, spaced between hours upon hours of smashing through the same zombie horde with the same blunt object to recover some new tan-colored Macguffin and return it to some new desperate survivor in exchange for the same old stick with a new skin.
Approach the object and greet her with a cheerful smile, while surreptitiously testing the weight of the object.
The BBC and others noted, for example, when a flat region was hidden under a "carpet", when the carpet hid a 3D object, and when the carpet was dispensed with and a 3D object was hidden in "free space".
The court also heard from Home Office pathologist Derek James who told the court that Ms Dries-Jenkins had been hit with a blunt object to the head about ten times and possibly more.
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Wolbachia isn't the only object inside the cell with its own genes.
Meetings will last only 20 minutes: as with speed dating, the object is merely to see whether there is any chemistry.
Pathologist Dr Simon Poole told the court Miss McCluskie died from being hit over the head with an object such as a bat.
If said player gets dangerously close to colliding with an object, the safety system would signal an audible warning alert and pause the game.
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The 1978 Convention on Succession of States in respect of Treaties in any event would not impose the ABM Treaty on the United States because the imposition would be incompatible with the Treaty's object and purpose.
The new definition removes the reference to females and says rape is "the penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object" without the consent of the victim.
While the environmental group is given a seat at the table, outsiders who are most impacted are excluded, with no opportunity to object to the settlements.
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The problem with this analogy is the prospect is a passive object that is acted upon.
The composition is freighted with meaning in the same way that virtually every object in a Jan van Eyck painting operated as a symbol.
The primeval object of "veneration" was the goddess with the power to call forth desire from men, and to make barren women fertile.
Leap Motion has radically multiplied the amount and precision of interaction data a user can produce by removing the physical object interacted with.
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It is natural for those familiar with the common-law system to object to a non-judicial body overturning an interpretation given by a final appellate court.
Think of the communications market as a pyramid with the globe-trotting, cost-is-no-object executive at the top.
Medway Council said it was deeply unhappy with the decision and would consider whether to object.
Samsung's Advanced Panorama shot with Object Tracking will further enhance the camera's wide-angle capabilities, ideal for the better capture of scenes such as vast landscapes.
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