Word: unlatching
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...gauges? They have the glint of chrome but turn out to be plastic. Then there's the question, which may arise on a weekend jaunt, of how to transport a couple grocery bags with the top down. Stowing the soft top is a snap: just press a button, unlatch a hook and it folds into the trunk with minimal effort. But don't plan on carrying more than a few Twizzlers since only a sliver of cargo space remains...
What could have been the largest automobile recall in history may now end up being quite a bit smaller. Federal safety regulators were expected to announce tomorrow that over 8 million vehicles with seat belts that might unlatch in crashes would be recalled. However,TIME Detroit bureau chief Bill McWhirternow says the 11 automakers involved have narrowed defective belts to one shipment of 300,000 to 500,000 belts from the Japanese manufacturer Takata. Although there has been a relatively small number of complaints about the belts, McWhirter says the recall is an indicator of a new attitude by automakers...
...plot requires it. He walks on floors but falls calf-deep into a carpet. In Ghost Sam can walk through some walls but not others. At the climax, he wastes time trying to persuade Molly to open her door when he has the power to unlatch it. He is a most unreliable specter. If you were Molly, would you trust this ghost enough to have sex with...
Twenty-six states have passed mandatory seat-belt laws, but in two of them voters this year decided they would like the liberty to unlatch. Late tallies disclosed last week that on Election Day Nebraska repealed its seat-belt law by as few as 720 votes, out of more than 500,000 cast. Massachusetts voters also unsnapped their seat-belt requirement, by a 53%-to-47% vote...
...Only the mother, Louisa, senses his new, deeper travail. She leaves Walt more alone than ever, except to put food where he can get it and unlatch the kitchen window when he is gone to wander in the night, during months of vision, revision, destruction and creation, months of the purgation, despair, and finally the vehement triumph of a man giving his whole self to his country and his kind...
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