51.  Several who surrendered Saturday said they had left behind comrades who were preparing to make a last stand.

52.  So Denver is bruised and battered on just about all fronts, hardly a pretty picture for a club trying to make a last stand.

53.  Starring in their roles of dead men slugging, the Mets were making a gallant last stand, the brave against the Braves.

54.  Some also see the battle as a last stand by hippie idealism against capitalism.

55.  The battle is considered the last stand of organized Seminole resistance in South Florida.

56.  The cooler Appalachian Mountains remain a refuge, a last stand of the small tobacco farms that once were common throughout much of the South.

57.  The foreign Taliban fighters were dedicated opponents, but their allies in the Taliban preferred negotiated surrenders and back-room amnesties to last stands.

58.  The Indonesian army and its East Timorese supporters are in effect making their last stand there, he said.

59.  The team never meshed until a spirited three-game last stand against the Magic in the playoffs.

60.  The terrain in northwestern Pakistan across the border from Tora Bora, where some suspect that bin Laden is making a last stand, is rugged and inhospitable.