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The curriculum also included competitions in donning gas masks, thousand-meter cross-country runs, hundred-meter swims, pull-ups, and throwing simulated hand grenades.
The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010
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He described it as a broken silver pencil stuck in the side of a thousand-meter rockslide.
Cyclops One Jim DeFelice 2003
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He described it as a broken silver pencil stuck in the side of a thousand-meter rockslide.
Cyclops One Jim DeFelice 2003
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His lucent green eyes had a detached thousand-meter stare, looking into a future almost too alarming to contemplate.
Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001
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In the sniper championships at Lejeune, in half the allotted time, he put ten rounds into the black from the thousand-meter line, capturing first place and promotion below zone to sergeant E-5.
The Village Bing West 2000
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In the sniper championships at Lejeune, in half the allotted time, he put ten rounds into the black from the thousand-meter line, capturing first place and promotion below zone to sergeant E-5.
The Village Bing West 2000
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In the sniper championships at Lejeune, in half the allotted time, he put ten rounds into the black from the thousand-meter line, capturing first place and promotion below zone to sergeant E-5.
The Village Bing West 2000
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In the sniper championships at Lejeune, in half the allotted time, he put ten rounds into the black from the thousand-meter line, capturing first place and promotion below zone to sergeant E-5.
The Village Bing West 2000
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Slowly the thousand-meter nylon ropes yielded beneath the strain as they absorbed the relative momentum of the ships, then slackened again as the Star Queen and the Hercules rebounded 'toward each other.
Breaking Strain Clarke, Arthur C. 1990
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That did not mean there could not be a sheer thousand-meter drop immediately to his left or right.
Flinx In Flux Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1988
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