Word: glean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Code. Understanding Shepard's continuing theme is a necessity if the playgoer is to glean what the author's latest play, The Tooth of Crime, is basically about. Currently having its U.S. première at the McWhirter Theater in Princeton, N.J., it features a hero named Hoss (Frank Langella), who is a rock star. He is also a kind of robber baron of the Western freeways. He is a "marker" who scores "kills" and controls cities as fiefs. Hoss also works within a system, never deviating from "the Code." His territory is allotted to him by unseen...
...specially designed external gas cells, have not caused any significant damage. In the asteroid belt, Pioneer will use more sophisticated sensors: an array of four small telescopes that have been aligned to measure the brightness, speed and direction of passing particles, and a sensitive light-measuring photopolarimeter that should glean even more detailed information from the reflected light of nearby asteroids...
...budding guerrilla movement....An authoritarian non-Communist regime can sometimes deal with an incipient revolt with the same massive retaliation technique....A democratic country simply cannot have recourse to such methods." One wonders if Ulam has heard of saturation bombing. Does he read the newspapers? Or does he glean his Indochina analysis from Presidential television speeches...
Asked by an SDS member at the end of the meeting whether he felt the three confrontations had done any good, Butler said, "We've attempted to glean from these meetings-which is rather difficult-facts which could lead to further investigations...