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They were slow ( men could run, and frequently walk, faster ); vulnerable ( to artillery ) due to their size, clumsiness and inability to carry armour against anything but rifle and machine gun ammunition ; extremely uncomfortable ( conditions inside them often incapacitating crews with engine fumes and heat, and driving some mad with noise ); and often despicably unreliable ( frequently failing to make it to their targets due to engine or track failures ).
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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.
They and slow
They don't expect to stop him, just slow him down some with the bat.
They produce strength by formation of ettringite, with strength growth similar to a slow Portland cement.
They vibrate irregularly at 20 – 50 pulses per second, about two octaves below the frequency of normal voicing, and the airflow through the glottis is very slow.
" They noted that " the law of transformation of quantity into quality ", " holds that a new quality emerges in a leap as the slow accumulation of quantitative changes, long resisted by a stable system, finally forces it rapidly from one state into another ," a phenomenon described in some disciplines as a paradigm shift.
They are porous and highly permeable to rainfall, and allow rainwater to slow percolate into the soil below, instead of flowing over the surface as runoff.
They will travel apart, slow down, and then again be drawn towards each other, and again collide.
They rebounded from that slow start, and managed to stay within a few games of. 500 for most of the spring.
They rest on usage, custom, convention, often of slow growth in their early stages, not always uniform, but which in the course of time received universal observance and respect.
They are generally slow.
They range from slow, stately dances ( bassadance, pavane, almain ) to fast, lively dances ( galliard, coranto, canario ).
They resemble ReDeads in regard to their slow and zombie-like movement ; in some games, setting a Gibdo's bandages alight will reveal a Stalfos or a ReDead underneath.
They were created to counter battleships and other large, slow and heavily armed ships by speed and agility.
They may line the ejection channel, stopping the slime from sticking to the organism when it is secreted ; or they may slow the drying process long enough for the slime to reach its target.
They are also very good at singing slow and soulful renditions.
They had only a single slow processor and their memories were very small by comparison with today.
They appear slow because of their lethargic movements but can easily outrun humans – bison have been observed running as fast as.
They used large, stable, slow rafts for trade to the Mesoamerican civilizations and inter-island travel but used smaller, faster but less stable canoes for intra-island shore travel.
They tended to form around the time of the glacial maximum when the glacier was slow and sluggish.
They used techniques borrowed from underground and avant garde film, including reversed film and slow motion, dramatic lighting, unusual camera angles and color filtering added in post-production.
They are slow to adapt to new experiences, but accept them after repeated exposure.
They brought science into British railways, an industry that from its quantum leap in innovative technology in the Victorian times, had progressed at a slow pace since then in comparison to other countries.
They were also relatively slow to erect – a keep's walls could usually only be raised by a maximum of 12 feet ( 3. 6 metres ) a year, the keep at Scarborough was typical in taking ten years to build.
They are either extremely slow witted, and get killed after laughing off a threat, or are extremely competent ( one example being Deputy Dewey Riley in the Scream series ) and either get killed, or turn up at the end of the movie when most characters are dead to arrest the perpetrator.
They would later be reorganized and rearmed in time to slow the Allied advance into Holland and Germany.
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