Word: extract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Solution reunites Holmes with the fine nose of the hound Toby, but the scent they are following is not the foul musk of creosote, that criminal excrescence from The Sign of the Four, but the rather innocuous odor of a man who is steeped to the ankles in vanilla extract. This may be a fine touch for the Sherlockian satirist--and there have been plenty of them--but it hardly befits the genius of Watson. Because of preposterous insertions, like this pun: "You've a real gift for telling a tale, Watson, and a flair for titles...
Whether or not the Bundy announcement was a ploy to extract concessions from Washington, a small one came quickly. The House Ways and Means Committee voted to reduce, from 6% of assets to 4%, the amount that foundations must pay out annually in grants if their assets fall below a certain amount. Another committee motion, to reduce the excise tax that foundations pay on earnings, was narrowly defeated but will probably be brought up again. More important, the Bundy action can be construed as a blunt message to Washington: do something about the falling stock market and the inflation that...
...same information months earlier because it had access to another of the burglars, Frank Sturgis. Recalls Publisher William Attwood: "He was ready to talk if we had pushed him and if we had come up with money in five figures." Attwood now regrets keenly that his paper did not extract more information from Sturgis...
...later Conan Doyle criminal, Col. Sebastian Moran (see The Adventure of the Empty House), is given Nietzsche's physical characteristics (a high forehead, "the brow of a philosopher," and a huge grizzled mustache. With the vitality of a dog grinding a juicy bone, Rosenberg goes on to extract from the 60 Sherlock Holmes stories strong influences from Oscar Wilde, Catullus, Robert Browning, Racine, Poe, Mary Shelley, George Sand and even Jesus Christ...
...experts had predicted, limiting the amount of gas that could escape. In addition, the GAO touched on a subject worrying many oil companies. The natural gas deposits lie under much of the nation's reserves of shale, from which the companies hope some day to extract large quantities of oil. But the shale could become radioactive or otherwise damaged by the blasting, making it dangerous to mine...