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  • With only 130 pounds on his five-foot, nine-inch frame, Steve Poynter felt he looked like skin and bones.

    Body by Design Kris Gethin 2011

  • Updating its probe into why a five-foot section of the aging Boeing 737 ripped open earlier this month, the National Transportation Safety Board on Monday laid out a series of preliminary findings focused on production imperfections that may have resulted in dangerous structural cracks in the jet.

    Southwest Jet Had Misaligned Rivets Andy Pasztor 2011

  • With only 130 pounds on his five-foot, nine-inch frame, Steve Poynter felt he looked like skin and bones.

    Body by Design Kris Gethin 2011

  • In an attempt to explain what went wrong, a senior company engineer laid out some of the decisions and analyses by the aerospace giant that unwittingly set the stage for the five-foot tear in the aluminum skin of the 15-year-old Boeing 737 aircraft.

    Reversal on 9/11 Trial; Southwest Air Fallout 2011

  • Just don't confuse it with Merritt's "five-foot boa constrictor in his home office," eh?

    Lents stadium foes to meet Wednesday night (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • I tried to barrel through a five-foot drift that looked fluffy, small in comparison to the big piles that would come later in the winter, and ended up high-centered on a solid pedestal of snow, all four wheels off the ground.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • I tried to barrel through a five-foot drift that looked fluffy, small in comparison to the big piles that would come later in the winter, and ended up high-centered on a solid pedestal of snow, all four wheels off the ground.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • At Deno's, the game prizes, which look like they've been flown in from some weird Moscow flea market, include a fishnet-clad leg pedestal lamp and a five-foot banana wearing dreads.

    An Amusement Peak Anne Kadet 2011

  • At Deno's, the game prizes, which look like they've been flown in from some weird Moscow flea market, include a fishnet-clad leg pedestal lamp and a five-foot banana wearing dreads.

    An Amusement Peak Anne Kadet 2011

  • It was a brilliant effort and it was unmatched until the last group of the day arrived at the 18th green and Alvaro Quirós rolled in a five-foot putt for a 65 of his own.

    Masters 2011: Rory McIlroy hits astonishing 65 to show golf the future 2011

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