Word: meter
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...youth told me she was shipping out on a cargo boat and invited me to join her, I leapt at the chance. Davien, a native Manhattanite, was taking a sabbatical from a successful career in the entertainment industry to launch a new chapter of her life, aboard a 197-meter cargo ship. She embarked in Brooklyn and cruised halfway around the world, tracing the route her grandfather, a sea captain, followed 80 years ago. She hooked up with me in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, where I now live, and together we sailed westward from Java, across the Indian Ocean...
...past year as the worst. In October, they say, some 500 ground troops attacked them from four directions in Xaysomboune while a gunship strafed them from above. In all, 216 Hmong were killed. Such assaults can come at any time. Last August, a mortar round landed less than a meter from nine-year-old Yeng Houa's family dinner table, killing both his parents. Yeng survived, but I count 18 shrapnel scars on his legs, his jaw is broken and there is an infected sore on his inner thigh. Since the attack, he has not spoken...
Senior Chris Lambert competed in the 100-meter dash, but did not qualify for the championship...
...start was not as strong as in recent weeks, according to McDaniel, but Harvard still held the lead by a few seats after the first 20 strokes. McDaniel said Harvard had its best 20 strokes at the 600-meter mark after passing a bridge—the Severn River course’s only major landmark...
Junior Will Riffelmacher said Navy led the second varsity race until about the 900-meter mark. The Crimson made its move at the halfway point and maintained a half-length lead for the last quarter of the race...