Word: glean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...importance of voting shouldn't be overplayed. But perhaps you can glean a little existential satisfaction out of the process of indicating one of your decisions. So when you do vote, the process has to have some ostensible meaning. You have to have a Grand Plan which can count towards effecting some sort of result (so your act can have meaning) and which will give some purpose to your participating in the process (so your act will have a meaning). Here...
...being expelled from the U.S. If convicted, Boeckenhaupt, on the other hand, could receive the death penalty; Mulvena, 14 years in one of Britain's sometimes insecure jails. Whether or not Boeckenhaupt passed on important information or, indeed, any information at all, he had every opportunity to glean intelligence of interest to the Russians. The Pentagon post where he worked not only has positions of U.S. combat aircraft and missiles but also is Washington's direct line of communication with the President when he is aboard Air Force One, the flying White House...
...most poignant pomp and circumstance. Boot heels click and swords flash in the sun; hands sweep neatly to helmet brims and pennants slowly change place on flagstaffs. Last week, as France withdrew from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the change of command was far from melodramatic. French General Glean Crepin, commander of the Allied Forces in Central Europe, demanded a private ceremony in the inner courtyard of the Château de Fontainebleau. There, with the quietest of diplomatic drumrolls, he relinquished control of the 60 divisions in NATO's European defense machine...
...sure we don't forget the clinical. The picture is said to tell of a world that "exists for sure only in ... (the director's) imagination." Moreover: "No doubt violence does rear up without warning in real Harlem life, but these scuffies come too fast in the movie to glean any human relevance." Precisely, and a cheer for Mr. Smock. At long last I can understand what really ails the slum children I've been treating. Their difficulty has been one of experiencing scuffles that come too fast for their own comprehension as human beings. At least "The Cool World...
...personal story. There are too many characters thrown in. Sordid incidents are strung together in an impressionistic way that works in photographic sequences, but diffuses the story. No doubt violence does rear up without warning in real Harlem life, but these scuffles come too fast in the movie to glean any human relevance. The audience I sat with laughed lightheartedly when a member of the gang pulled a knife on his father, when Duke stole a purse, and when a rival whom Duke stabbed rolled over and said "Thank you," and died...