five-ton

• “She was only a five-ton yacht, but we slammed her fifty miles to windward into the north-east trade.”

  The Sheriff of Kona

• “When that career fizzled out, he rolled into the world of political talk radio like a five-ton boulder, crushing everything in sight, and re-making the landscape — using a potent potpourri of hate, lies, ridicule, and a brash hyper-certainty that played to the angry rubes looking for a loudmouth leader to worship and rally their “Falling Down” anger around.”

  Sacked!

• “Tell the white man there's pearl shell in some lagoon infested by ten-thousand howling cannibals, and he'll head there all by his lonely, with half a dozen kanaka divers and a tin alarm clock for chronometer, all packed like sardines on a commodious, five-ton ketch.”

  THE INEVITABLE WHITE MAN

• “This is why Nancy Pelosi, who has been under the five-ton weight of the attack ads herself, told Keith Olbermann on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann this week:”

  The Huffington Post: Brian Ross: Tea Party Hypocrisy: The New Taxation Without Representation

• “He watches closely as Prowler, Spiderman and other five-ton trucks flatten junk cars and leap over dirt inclines.”

  The Washington Post: The man behind the 'Greatest Show on Earth'

• “The missile system, provided by Lockheed Martin, has seen action in Iraq, and carries six missiles on the back of a five-ton truck.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Errant Missile Strike Kills 12 Afghan Civilians

• “Actually the 509th was sharpening its aim with five-ton “pumpkin bombs” of the same shape as the atomic weapons.”

  Simon & Schuster: Whirlwind

• “They were five-ton troop transports, with high canvas awnings covering their rear trays.”

  Simon & Schuster: Hell Island

• “He ploughed right into the seething horde of apes, slamming through their ranks with his big five-ton truck.”

  Simon & Schuster: Hell Island

• “The ride was smooth with a quick layover, engines running, in Baghdad where a five-ton piece of equipment was wheeled into the cargo hold with us.”

  The Huffington Post: Andy Harp: Operation Thriller USO Tour, Day No. 5

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