Word: culling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First, even without students' transcripts, prestigious hospitals will no doubt be able to cull what they consider the cream of the cream...
Munro's most nagging difficulties rest at midfiled, the pivotal and most tiring position in the game. Half of the 40-man turnout is running midfield now, but of the possible seven units, Munro plans to cull three or four. A proliferation of sophomores and "a lack of experience or depth," however, leaves the middy corps "very thin," Munro said...
...treasured stories of biblical cunning. In Genesis, the patriarch Jacob outsmarts his parsimonious uncle Laban while tending Laban's flocks. First he tells Laban to cull all spotted sheep and goats out of the flock for safekeeping, then offers to tend the "monochrome" remainder (white sheep, black goats), taking only spotted offspring as his pay. Laban quickly agrees. Jacob sets about having the animals couple in front of peeled branches. They produce large numbers of spotted offspring, and Jacob becomes rich...
...system to find out which areas produce the most bookings, then directs its heaviest advertising to them. Each motel manager is expected to make at least five sales calls a week, visiting local civic and fraternal clubs to hymn the benefits of using his inn for meetings. Some managers cull newspapers for engagement announcements, and send bracelets and other gifts to prospective brides, along with a pitch to honeymoon at Holiday Inns...
...Basically the Trib is an exercise in inspired deskmanship. The paper has only one full-time general reporter of its own, and the core of the operation consists of five copy editors working with Weiss in crowded quarters off the Champs-Elysées. Six nights a week, they cull streams of copy that issue from 16 Teletypes, providing the Trib with a broad choice that goes beyond the Post's and Times's output. Material also comes from the Los Angeles Times and Chicago's Daily News and Sun-Times, in addition to a full range...