11. In Prizren, to the south, German troops came under sniper fire, then killed a Serb as he tried to attack them in a battered yellow car. 12. It is a dreary place of blowing trash and alleys strewn with shredded sofas and battered cars bleeding oil. 13. Its members wear scruffy clothes, operate in battered cars and have made a science of detecting a bulge or an unnatural gait caused by a concealed weapon. 14. Minutes later, the couple take off for Perth in a battered old car. 15. Slowly, a procession of battered old cars approaches, clanking along a rutted dirt track. 16. The battered car turned into a runaway Roman candle, bursting into flames and spinning wildly in the first turn. 17. They are leaving kids with family or friends, driving battered cars or bartering for rides with neighbors. 18. We lumber past a Cuban guy trying to fix his battered beige car, a Russian Lada, stuck in the heavy rain. 19. Plummeting chunks of ice damaged house roofs, battered cars and knocked out traffic lights. 20. A regular procession of battered cars brought wounded Chechen fighters from the palace. |