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  • Then from nowhere emerged a large group of Iraqis -- an old man, several young boys and a stream of women enveloped in black chadors -- that began crossing a major intersection overlooked by Humvees.

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  • Johnny is about to be a father, Gus is a suave man yet to settle down and Linville is a young man initially more focused on his work though soon to meet an old flame.

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  • "He is a man who is not young: He is old and his strength is slowly ebbing, " Lombardi said this week.

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  • The motion for the Humble Address is proposed by a senior and seconded by a junior government MP - "a genial old codger on the way out, and an oily young man on the make" as the former Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell put it, when he was the junior MP in question.

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  • Additional comic characters of the ''dzad'' (old man) and ''baba'' (old lady), played by a young girl and boy respectively, interact with the audience.

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  • Katie Nagel, during her senior year at Napoleon High School in Ohio, started dating 22-year-old Mikey Peddicord, a young local man, and they seemed like two kids in love.

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  • The young men call the old man a "s--- German" and savagely beat and kick him, fracturing his skull.

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  • We had a young man about 24 years old who had been kicked out of his house by his mother, and he was incredibly bitter about it.

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  • Yet, the fact that thousands of citizens - young and old, man and women - care so much about the assassination of a liberal politician, also speaks volumes.

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  • Its characteristic melody (kunqiang) and its dynamic structure, with its cast of a young male lead, a female lead, comic roles, and the role of the old man, have also been borrowed by the other forms of opera.

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  • This condemns the nation to relying for the indefinite future (Mr. Obama says for more than his lifetime, and he's a fairly young man) on an arsenal comprised of bombs and warheads that are, on average, already some 30 years old.

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  • The climbing now was steeper and more difficult, until finally the stream seemed to drop down over the edge of a smooth granite ledge that rose above them and the old man waited at the foot of the ledge for the young man to come up to him.

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  • Her unease lasted through the introductions of two elderly Russian couples, two elderly Chinese couples, three middle-aged Dominican couples, one handsome young Haitian man, one very tall, very old, and very loud Haitian woman with a funny name Oolna and one dark-skinned woman who spoke so fast and with such a heavy accent that nobody could understand what she said or where she came from.

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