Word: drapes
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Experts caution too that what security measures do exist here drape passengers in an illusion of safety. The reality is that U.S. airports have no systematic way of screening for explosives that a terrorist might want to sneak aboard an aircraft. Metal detectors might miss plastics or liquids used to assemble a bomb, as might bored, poorly paid and poorly trained operators of X-ray machines. At some U.S. airports, including Kennedy, checked-in luggage for international flights is sniffed by specially trained dogs or scanned by electronic vapor-particle detectors that can locate explosives. But if the explosives...
...before he could take on the President he needed to dethrone the front runner. And so he began to drape the cobwebs on his rival. "I want to say this carefully," he said. "You won't hear me say one word of disrespect for Bob Dole. I don't feel that way and I won't say it. But a lot of people are wishing someone would go to Bob Dole and say, 'It's time to move...
Back in Smolan's Mission Control, though, the Decency Act was mostly a side issue. Smolan declined to drape his pages in black, although he did include a fiercely worded attack on the legislation by Internet activist John Perry Barlow, and he did agree late in the day to add to his "Welcome" screen a blue ribbon signifying solidarity with the protesters. But he did not go out of his way to cover the protest; it is mentioned only briefly in the story that accompanies an electronic image of the Clinton signing ceremony...
...rooming group in Mattthews has found a variation on the old themes. Instead of simply stringing lights inside their room, these roommates wrapped four sets of colored lights around their window frames and then proceeded to drape the wires onto the branches of two nearby trees...
...there is always something new to learn, new discoveries to make." People who want a garden because the neighbor has one and hire someone else to install it may gradually be smitten by what's out there, want to know more, marvel at the changes each morning in the drape of a vine or the paths of the bees. Soon they will no longer have a garden; their gardens will have them...