The team's fabled batting line-up, stuffed with ageing legends, lay in ruins, mowed down by a bunch of terrific young Australian speedsters.

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When Anthony Marshall landed on Iwo Jima in 1945, half his platoon was mowed down, others were maimed and the 20-year-old lieutenant was wounded in the foot.

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The Jan. 9 collapse in Queens didn't cause any life-threatening injuries, but three workers had to be extricated from beneath fallen machinery after the 170-foot-long boom fell and mowed down part of the building's wooden framework, according to officials and witnesses.

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