Word: chaff
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Lang agreed that the government should regulate carcinogenic chemicals but said that the large gray area between what the government should regulate and what it shouldn't had to be defined. "How to you separate the wheat from the chaff?" he said...
...revelations will be gleaned from the wisdom that its 200,000 or so voters bestow. More than two candidates will claim victories, moral or otherwise, and at least one will call it quits. The primary, as is its wont, will mark a watershed in this campaign, separate wheat from chaff, get the ball rolling, shift the momentum, be the straw that broke the camel's back or prove the turning point. But no matter how it turns out, New Hampshire will be judged by the mythos which have surrounded this poly-sci microcosm and given it the dubious privilege...
...weaknesses ... to cher ish in an adversary: overweening vanity, bumbling pomposity, addiction to creature comforts, a tendency to alcoholic indiscretion, the heedless pursuit of venery." Opponents were destroyed not by reasoned argument but by a recital of their peccadilloes, endlessly repeated. When Ander son objected to such "scraps and chaff," his boss replied: "Once you catch one of these birds at anything, and you're sure of your facts, never worry about doing him an injustice by overplaying it. We'll never learn 10% of the evil they...
...glad the chaff, sweat and fatigue are still there, providing roots and memories for another generation...
...rotate augers. The object of all this clever instrumentation is not only the cutting of wheat, which the combine does admirably by snipping it off a few inches from the ground, but the threshing of wheat. As the great machines inch their way across the field, a cloud of chaff blows back behind them. Only the cleanly hulled grain remains...