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They and were
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.

They and diplomats
They are nevertheless not diplomatic missions, their personnel are not diplomats and do not have diplomatic visas, although there may be legislation providing for personal immunities and tax privileges, as in the case of the Hong Kong offices in London and Toronto, for example.
They are however discouraged to file a formal complaint with WTO by diplomats from rich countries.
They sent diplomats to negotiate a surrender, offering to spare the Melians if they joined the Athenian-dominated Delian League and paid tribute to Athens.
They were first treated as diplomats but after the provisional government fell relations deteriorated and by March the doors to their living space were kept " chained and padlocked ".
They included two Jesuit priests, two Lutheran Pastors, conservatives, liberals, monarchists, landowners, former trade-union leaders, and diplomats.
They attacked the military, government officials, as well as foreign diplomats and foreign businesses.
They were not professional diplomats.
They serve as diplomats and infiltrators, pretending to be human.
They were brother and son to Franz Joseph I, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg, and both front-line diplomats for the Austrian court.
They took the largest recorded number of diplomats held hostage to date in Colombia, which accounted for 14 ambassadors, including the United States '.
They continued on to became doctors, engineers, agriculturists, diplomats, economists, and statesmen in their respective countries.
They are usually senior diplomats with ambassadorial rank, occasionally chargés d ' affaires.
Despite the subpar performance, a news story said, " For two magical hours, the rock band U2 achieved what warriors, politicians and diplomats could not: They united Bosnia.
They flew to Havana, where the diplomats were released and returned to their home countries.
They are diplomatic historians, expert in the use of historical sources and in the polished tact called for by their social position ; they are not cIoset-scholars, ignorant of the world, but men who stood out in public life: jurists like Procopius, Agathias, Evagrius, Michael Attaliates, statesmen like Joannes Cinnamus, Nicetas Acominatus, Georgius Pachymeres, Laonicus Chalcondyles ; generals and diplomats like Nicephorus Bryennius the Younger, George Acropolites, Georgius Phrantzes ; and even crowned heads, like Constantine Porphyrogenitus, Anna Comnena, John VI Cantacuzene, and others.

They and jazz
They integrated trip hop with other genres – including ambient, soul, IDM, experimental industrial, atmospheric drum n bass / jungle, liquid dubstep, breakbeat, drum ' n ' bass, acid jazz, and new age.
They also felt that Miller's brand of swing shifted popular music away from the " hot jazz " bands of Benny Goodman and Count Basie toward commercial novelty instrumentals and vocal numbers.
They also featured some of the best trombone soloists in the business, several of whom were " Anglo " jazz musicians who had mastered the típico style.
" They were the first jazz recordings made on the west coast by an African-American jazz band from New Orleans.
They played jazz, popular, and classical music while on the boats.
They played at the Nice Festival along with Rex Stewart, Louis Armstrong, and several other American jazz musicians.
" They quickly realized that they enjoyed similar music, and even listened to the same jazz radio stations ; not long after, they began writing songs together.
They are slotted swing dances, danced to a wide variety of music including blues, pop, jazz, and rock and roll.
They went through several musical phases during the course of their recording career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, then becoming practitioners of R & B and funk, progressing to a smooth pop-funk ensemble, and in the post-millennium creating music with a modern, electro-pop sound.
They began as a psychedelic rock group whose early singles were influenced by The Beatles, and diversified their sound through the use of instruments such as keyboards like the Mellotron, reed instruments, and by incorporating jazz and improvisational techniques in their music.
They casually played improvisational jazz around Burlington, VT. for a few months, with the first of several shows at Last Elm Cafe.
They are still known for jazz and blues.
They persuaded the landlord that they played jazz, although their music was predominantly country rock and blues, and first appeared on either 3 May, or 13 May 1971, with Steel on drums.
They also had a V-38500 " race " series, a 23000 ' hot dance ' continuation of the V-38000 series, as well as a 23200 ' Race ' series with blues, gospel and some hard jazz.
They despised black culture, which they considered inferior, and even sought to prohibit " traditionally black " musical genres like jazz as being " corrupt negro music ".
They wanted to get away from the jazz scene of the early ' 50s, which was the Birdland scene — you hire Phil Woods or Charlie Parker or J. J. Johnson, they come and sit in with the house rhythm section, and they only play blues and standards that everybody knows.
They formed in 1970, led then by drummer Prosper Niang, but their controversial lyrics and unfamiliar jazz sound led to a lack of popularity, and the group moved to Paris in 1973.
They recorded " experimental " songs for RCA Victor which Jones began to fuse jazz and early swing music.
They also visited his store for amplification for the amplified acoustic guitars that were beginning to show up in the southern California music scene — in big band and jazz music, and for the electric " Hawaiian " or " lap steel " guitars becoming popular in country music.
They contrasted with the classical pretensions of cool jazz, with Mobley's rich lyricism being bluesier, alongside the funky approach of Horace Silver.
They introduced several jazz standards, including " Django " and " Bags ' Groove ".
They heard great jazz drummer Warren " Baby " Dodds playing inventive solos while in New York City with Bunk Johnson's band.
Said Howard Reich, jazz critic of the Chicago Tribune, “ It would be difficult to overestimate Henry Threagill ’ s role in perpetually altering the meaning of jazz ..… He has changed our underlying assumptions of what jazz can and should be .” – An excerpt from a chapter on Henry Threadgill from And They All Sang ( published 2005 ) by late Pulitzer winning author and disc jockey Studs Terkel – a book about “ forty of the greatest and most deeply human musical figures of our time ”.

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