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  • In England, veterinarians performed emergency surgery on a lion plagued by a lethal, football-sized hairball.

    The Way That It Happened Amy Butcher 2011

  • Last year, a solo prospector unearthed the Ausrox Nugget, a football-sized lump weighing 50 pounds, using a metal detector on a site east of Kalgoorlie.

    Australians Catch Gold-Mining Fever David Fickling 2011

  • Inspectors have found "nothing unusual" in the rest of Southwest Airlines 'fleet of 737-300s after a football-sized hole in one of the jets forced an emergency landing, an airline spokeswoman said Tuesday.

    POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: July 15, 2009 2009

  • In July 2009, a football-sized hole opened up in-flight in the fuselage of another of Southwest's Boeing 737s, depressurizing the cabin.

    NTSB: Cracks found in 3 grounded Southwest planes 2011

  • When workers finally checked the reactor in February of 2002, they made an astonishing finding: Corrosive fluid from overhead pipes had eaten a football-sized hole in the reactor vesselâ™s steel side.

    U.S. Nuclear Regulator Lets Industry Write Rules The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • A Southwest Airlines jet made an emergency landing in Charleston, West Virginia, on Monday after a football-sized hole in its fuselage caused the cabin to depressurize, an airline spokeswoman said.

    POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: July 14, 2009 2009

  • A stream idly trickles through football-sized boulders down to the sea, while soothing sweeps of light-brown sand provide a backdrop to jutting rock formations that point arrow-like towards the Atlantic.

    Secret beaches of the southwest: Mouthmill Beach 2011

  • As a third line of defense, some rigs have the acoustic trigger: It's a football-sized remote control that uses sound waves to communicate with the valve on the seabed floor and close it.

    Leaking Oil Well Lacked Safeguard Device 2010

  • As a third line of defense, some rigs have the acoustic trigger: It's a football-sized remote control that uses sound waves to communicate with the valve on the seabed floor and close it.

    Leaking Oil Well Lacked Safeguard Device 2010

  • Durian fruit from Malaysia is a lumpy, football-sized fruit that costs upwards of $25 a pound and smells very much like rotten fish.

    Lisa Turner: Hungry for Love: Foods to Inspire Desire 2010

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