Word: swept
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Falwell these days, however, is less the bullying, backwater figure that he used to be. Gone are the polyester suits, half boots and swept-back hairdo of his early ministry. A cruel streak used to show up in his arguments then. Today the belligerency is more concealed, although last week's attack on Bishop Desmond Tutu demonstrates that the streak runs deep. Falwell used to rail that homosexuals would spend an eternity in hell. He still condemns homosexuality but now expresses sympathy for those who practice it. Abortionists are not routinely labeled murderers. The less obnoxious Falwell of today draws...
...just entered through the door over the right wing when the jet's rear was rattled by an explosion, perhaps caused by the ignition of the oxygen tanks that supply the plane's emergency masks. Seconds later, another blast, closer to the front, rocked the aircraft. The impact swept Wilson off his feet and backward into Beech, saving Wilson from being blown out of the plane. Like 79 of the flight's 83 survivors, he had to receive medical treatment. (Four of the flight crew members, including the pilot, escaped unharmed.) At week's end twelve remained hospitalized, only...
...Angeles, the thick brush had been baked by temperatures above 100 degrees and swept by winds of 25 m.p.h. Suddenly, huge sections of vegetation were ablaze. According to witnesses, a man and a woman had jumped out of a white car and ignited the city's worst fire in 24 years. In San Diego, 120 miles to the south, some of the canyon brush had grown 12 ft. high and turned tinder-dry in the record heat. It too caught fire, starting the most serious residential blaze in the city's history. Investigators said it was almost certainly a case...
...from Viet Nam, is already a U.S. citizen, and he too did well with a restaurant, the Mekong, at the intersection of Broadway and Argyle Street in Chicago. "When I first moved in here, I swept the sidewalk after we closed," he recalls. "People thought I was strange, but now everyone does the same." Lam Ton's newest project is to build an arch over Argyle Street in honor of the immigrants who live and work there. "I will call it Freedom Gate," he says, "and it will have ocean waves with hands holding a freedom torch...
Levesque's resignation, which will not take effect for 90 days in order to give the party time to choose a new leader, marks the end of an era for Quebec. Levesque swept into power in 1976 promising to lead the province out of the Canadian confederation. He championed a law making French the official language of Quebec, which delighted most voters but hurt the cause of separation. Satisfied that they were at last living and working with their own language, Quebecers lost interest in seceding from the rest of Canada...