Word: ton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pentagon said three Iranians were killed and two were listed as missing in the attack, while 26 Iranians were rescued, four of them wounded. It said a Navy boarding party found 10 mines aboard the Iran Ajr, a 1,662-ton amphibious landing craft...
...Kate Felsen, Sharon Hayes, Julie Sasner and their classmates, three years adds up to a ton of wins...
...woods with his one-ton Ford flatbed truck by 7. He had with him his chain saw, an 18-in., yellow Swedish-made Pioneer, a thermos of water and another one of coffee. He was cutting wood on a ranch where loggers had taken the big timber. He had bought what they had left, tops from big trees and an occasional standing tree. He commenced work in a clearing the loggers had left surrounded by woods that cut off the breeze...
...price he receives is low these days, $8 a ton, and he and his second wife are having a hard time getting by, but he has cut wood since he was 14 years old and can't see himself working at anything else. He and his first wife, who died a few years ago, had eight children, and they raised them on his woodcutter's wages. Back in the days when he began, he says, "There weren't nobody lower than a woodcutter," but today his skills are more respected, and he tells proudly that the bank was willing...
Hopeful Olympians, a ton of Cuban weightlifters and an uplifting U. S. pitcher grace the Pan Am Games. -- Scuffing nonsense...