Word: sweep
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...evils of kids' toys: batteries and $99.99 price tags. There are some larger versions, even a few that are battery-powered, but the 3¾-in. to 5½-in. GoBots and their competitors are not to be confused with the fancier adult playthings that fetch drinks or sweep the kitchen. Rather, many of these unwired "action figures," which cost a modest $3 to $22, get their go from a special twist. They are fantasy machines and long-favored hot-rods all in one. With a crank of the arms or a snap of the legs, each...
...celebration, as South Africa admitted nonwhite members to its national Parliament and prepared to swear into office its first executive State President, Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha, who now becomes head of both state and government. Instead the week will be remembered for the worst wave of violence to sweep the country in eight years. It was an ominous welcome to the new "reform" constitution, which grants a measure of political power to South Africa's Indian and so-called colored, or mixed-race, minorities but none whatever to the blacks, who make up 73% of the nation...
After several tankers and cargo carriers were damaged by mines floating in the Red Sea earlier this summer, the navies of Britain, Italy, France and the U.S. sent ships to help Egypt and Saudi Arabia sweep their waters clean. Curiously, the extensive international search effort, involving some two dozen vessels and helicopters, has failed to find any mines. Nonetheless, according to the intelligence department of Lloyd's of London, 18 ships were damaged by mines between July 9 and Aug. 15. The U.S. plans to wind up its part of the operation this week, barring any new developments...
...wings are on right; they are supposed to sweep forward. They are mounted at the tail end and pitched ahead at a 35° angle. The configuration increases lift, reduces drag, prevents stall outs, and allows the X-29A to turn on a dime at supersonic speeds. Just behind the cockpit are gill-like projections called canards, the French word for ducks. Indeed, the plane resembles a mallard in full flight...
...national interest, therefore, why not radical reform? A truce. Sweep the disclosure forms into the White House shredder. Declare, à la Senator George Aiken, the Battle of Watergate won, withdraw the troops and proclaim a general amnesty. After all, we do it for draft dodgers and deserters after a war. We could even do it the way it is done in banana republics: on the President's birthday...