Word: filterers
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...argument that Evita was merely a filter or receptacle for the struggles and dreams of the masses pervades Santa Evita, making the tale of her corpse's adventures richly ironic. Several of the military officers and other characters responsible for the transport or maintenance of her body fall deeply in love with her, until their obsession controls their lives. They speak of Evita as if she were living, and many believe that she has mystical powers. They avoid saying her name, instead referring to her as "Person," "the Deceased," or "that woman." She is both a curse and blessing...
Crane further said the restaurant should not be penalized for blocking an exit that isn't even required by the building code. And he also said the restaurant quickly corrected the grease on the sprinklers and filter by replacing most of the former and increasing the cleaning frequency of the latter...
...However, in these classes (as opposed to those which occupy the other category,) discussion is an accurate term to describe that which transpires, not a blatant misnomer. Rapid and remarkable articulation is helpful but not essential. Those who listen with a trained ear, an ear which knows how to filter out the garbage and maintain the pearls, are rewarded not only with success but also with knowledge...
...southwestern Texas in which Quetzalcoatlus was found contained lots of crustacean burrows but no bones from larger animals like crocodiles that might have fed a carrion eater. Some pterosaurs had beaks shaped like those of spoonbills. Pterodaustro had a mouthful of strainer-like teeth that it probably used to filter microscopic plankton from the water. Pteranodon is thought to have scooped up its prey and stashed it in a pelican-like throat pouch...
...bred by East Germany's attempts to "produce a worker for the worker's state, someone not too smart, not too skeptical." When Peter first arrives in Hamburg in 1985, Kramer writes, "He had a little cassette player, tapes by Pink Floyd, Grace Slick, and the Grateful Dead, a filter coffeepot, and two hundred and fifty grams of Jacobs Fein und Mild Guatemala-blend coffee. He had everything he needed until someone came and told him what...