Word: glean
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...Square. As the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Ratzinger is widely expected to play a pivotal role in the coming conclave to choose a successor to John Paul II, and is even tipped by some Vatican officials as a potential pontiff himself. So,we were keen to glean hints from his homily about his thinking on the challenges facing the Church. On Good Friday, for example, Ratzinger surprised many with a sharp denunciation of what he called the ?filth? in the Church, which he characterized as a boat shipping water from every side. Those comments had been taken...
Some of his points ring depressingly true. Douthat cleverly turns sex and academia into a cold calculus: attempts to glean maximum success from minimal effort...
...organized what it calls "strategic support teams," groups of 10 or fewer agents who can be sent anywhere in the world to collect intelligence for commanders in the field. Senior Pentagon officials say that one such agent, an interrogator who was dispatched to Baghdad, managed to glean information in interviews with Iraqis that led to the capture of Saddam Hussein...
...conversation took the twists and turns that late night rambles usually do, and was thoroughly unremarkable for most of its duration. After awhile, though, Dartboard and his roommate managed to glean one bit of wisdom, the surprising frequency with which people were summed up with one of two words: good...
...asked professors how they go about teaching the creative process, and students what they glean from this instruction. Their sentiments demonstrate a shared exuberance and powerful sense of freedom that ought to be a source of inspiration for the wider Harvard community...