Word: ton
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...indeed a submarine, a gray-hulled North Korean Sang-O class, 325-ton boat, and it was jammed onto a reef, rolling helplessly in the surf. Lee's discovery touched off one of postwar South Korea's biggest manhunts as tens of thousands of troops pursued up to 26 North Koreans who had been aboard the sub. By week's end 20 of them were dead, one was in custody and at least one, possibly seven, was still at large in the area's wild mountains. In separate clashes with North Koreans, three South Korean soldiers were killed...
Last night, there was a ton of food in the building--a Crimson Open House...
...concede that I once did not view marijuana as dangerous, knowing that it is not physically addictive or lethal. (A fatal dosage would be three-quarters of a ton smoked over a 15-minute period.) Accordingly, I believed marijuana laws to be draconian, a view once shared by Jimmy Carter, Dan Quayle and Richard Nixon's marijuana commission, all of whom favored decriminalization. It was only after my appetite for recreational drugs had abated, and I had produced children whom I did not believe capable of "handling" marijuana as responsibly as I had, that I came to oppose decriminalization...
...Jordanesque, however, a player in any sport has to be like Mike: the best ever. Woods just may be. By the time he turned pro last week, he had set a ton of records in amateur golf. Two weekends ago he won his third straight U.S. amateur title, a feat never before accomplished, and he did it dramatically. The final was a 36-hole, match-play affair--meaning the golfers played to win each hole against a single opponent rather than accumulate the lowest score for the total field. As he began the last 18 holes, Woods was down five...
...explained. The ugly word--and the sentiment behind it--did not exactly spring unsolicited from the preschooler's head; his dad sports enough neo-Nazi tattoos and credentials to explain the boy's action. But hearing his son talk that way, says Leyden, 30, "hit me like a ton of bricks. I knew I was taking him down a path where he'd end up in jail or dead, remembered for something horrible like the Oklahoma bombing. All of a sudden I didn't want him to be like...