In 1994, a 3-year-old girl was killed in East Harlem when a powerful jet of water from a hydrant swept her in front of a garbage truck.

Two Coast Guard cutters, four jets and a helicopter swept a 9,000-square-mile area of the Atlantic off Massachusetts today searching for a Connecticut lobster boat and her five-member crew.

She had bailed out, had swept to solid ground on streams of flame shooting from the rocket jets in the shoulders of her suit.

The jet roared off and swept high into the sky.

The jet was sweeping around from the southwest, over Warrenton, where Mosby's raiders had once galloped. . . . "There!"

The crowd fell silent as the jets swept out of earshot and the music again turned melancholy.

The black jet swept by again.

A big jet from Pensacola swept by, well to port, leaving four trails of vapour that hung almost motionless in the still air.

The third jet swept overhead, climbing and turning hard.

"And the private jet that swept you down here?"