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They were beaten back by the Australian Army, and the Battle of Milne Bay is remembered as the first outright defeat on Japanese land forces during World War II.
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They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.
They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
They were running from something.
They were a pair of lost, whipped kids, Morgan thought as he went to bed.
They passed ranches that were framed dark gray against the black hills.
They were tethered, army style, on stable lines.
They bawled questions that were not answered in the uproar.
They were about a mile off ; ;
They weren't sleeping, of course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.
They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.
They were going to town, and they were both excited.
They were free.
They were in a fight, outweighed in both numbers and money.
They were sitting on their heels, rider-fashion, over by the still empty calf wagon.
They were considering it gravely, neither seeming to like what he planned.
They were silent for a little while, each looking glum.
They were all good men.
They were headed straight for each other on a collision course.
`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.
They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
They were west of the Sabine, but only God knew where.
They were engulfed by the weird silence, broken only by the low, angry murmur of the river.
They were already swollen to bursting.
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They also were beaten by Fiji on their 1977 tour to New Zealand.
They progressed to the next round, where they were beaten 4 – 1 by Germany, their heaviest defeat in a World Cup.
They beat Sydney easily in the first week of the finals, but were beaten by Carlton by one point in the preliminary final.
They were abused, beaten, and starved by the thousands, as detailed in the book The Arms of Krupp.
They join the Invaders from Infinity ( see List of Captain Marvel ( DC Comics ) enemies ) in their attempt to destroy the Solar System after being defeated, but are beaten and sent back to Mars while the Invaders are imprisoned and destroyed.
They faced persecution not only from German soldiers but also from other prisoners, and many gay men were beaten to death.
They were beaten by Liverpool in the FA Cup while the title challenge was ended with a few games left after a bust-up between Docherty and several of his first-team players – though not Bonetti – meaning that a much-weakened team was fielded in a key match against Burnley, in which Bonetti conceded six goals.
They were beaten by The Truman Show and " The Prayer " from Quest for Camelot respectively.
They were beaten again the following year by Everton in the 1906 FA Cup Final.
They appear to have beaten the Library Policeman / Ardelia, only to discover at the end that she has already attached to Naomi.
They portrayed Ike Clanton and Tom McLaury as being unjustly bullied and beaten by the vengeful Earps on the day of the gunfight.
They are badly beaten in the Battle of Lautulae and the Samnites go on to reach within 32 kilometres of Rome.
They were beaten until they fell and, when they fell, they were further beaten.
" They lose favor with the gods who cause them to be beaten and disfigured before receiving a deluge of heavy resin.
They distinguish the struck ( yàle ), including both beaten and plucked, and the blown ( fêe ), as revealed by Ruth Stone in Let the Inside Be Sweet: the interpretation of music among the Kpelle of Liberia, 1982, Indiana U. Press ( Kartomi, 1990 ).
They were beaten back and all of them killed.
They were said to be beaten by the Wildcats.
They reached as far as Lublin in eastern Poland before being decisively beaten at Zaslavl.
They were replaced by bamboo sticks beaten together, which were themselves banned in turn.
They fought gamely, but were beaten with the loss of 700 men while the French lost 150.
They were kept in cold and starving conditions many with dysentery or other illnesses and the weakest were often beaten to death, shot, guillotined, or hanged, while the others were subjected to torture by the Germans.
They had been beaten by 7 points.
They endured until quarter-finals, when they were beaten by America ( Mexico ).
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