Word: chaff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Associate Editor William Bowen separated wheat from chaff, and had enough unused words to fill a few storage bins, but none so large as those grain storage bins in Kansas that are shown on the cover...
...that these press inquirers would not have to waste their own time searching for the lead of their story. In any list of appointments, White House correspondents no longer have to hunt for the significant names: Salinger has gotten the word-he conveniently separates the wheat from the chaff...
...commendable that straw-hat theatres are investigating the possibilities of off-Broadway drama in real off-Broadway settings, but until they ignore such worthless items as "The Two-Headed Baby" and learn to discriminate wheat from chaff, they will only be doing great disservice to a medium they want to foster...
...Indian staggered as if he had been struck. "It is too much!" he gasped. "It is the final piece of wheat and chaff! It is the insult direct! It is distinctly humiliating!" He turned, and groped his way into the building...
...technical standpoint, the radar harassment was no major threat to today's sophisticated electronic gear, which allows skilled operators to ''see'' through such outmoded forms of jamming. But the West was concerned at the continual harassment. Noticeably annoyed, President Kennedy called dropping the aluminum chaff "a particularly dangerous kind of action.'' The U.S. seemed more determined than ever to fight if the Russians nudge too hard in the corridors. U.S. jet fighters, armed with Sidewinder missiles, recently have been aloft at the Western end of the Berlin air lanes, ready to reach...