The Navy finally agreed to put Mr. Brashear through a series of tests, including climbing ladders with barbells strapped to his back to simulate a diver's staggering load.

They had carried her on their backs, where she had to share space with saddlebags and sacks of food, and on their wagons, which creaked and swayed beneath staggering loads.

Some earn three times that amount in a semester, but that involves a staggering load of 18 credits.

Now the block stood six feet high; it would have been quite a leap to me unencumbered; with the breast and back weights, and the twenty pounds upon each foot, and the staggering load of the helmet, the thing was out of reason.

Its high-energy, mushrooming .44 slugs delivered a staggering load of hydrostatic shock.

But other pitchers, with a mix of admiration and awkward concern, were taken aback by the staggering physical load Cone was asked to carry.

He reached the main corridor that, led from the museum proper to the prayer rooms without trouble, save for his staggering load.

The whole lining would have been a staggering load for all five of them, even here, but there was no sign as to its removal.

As a result, he receives a staggering load of publications daily, including the pornographic magazines that he genuinely reads only for the articles.

The foundation also said Casco Bay received "a staggering load of toxic contaminants each year," including metals, lead, chromium, zinc and petroleum hydrocarbons.