Word: sift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After most elections the nation can sit back, sift the results, and say that this and that have been proved. By these standards, Tuesday's balloting was the All-Purpose election. It gave each party's machine enough material to grind for a while-Democrats can say that the Administration is slipping and Republicans can say that the close figures indicate the G.O.P. is very much alive but the fact is that nothing really has been proved. Unemployment, apparently, was enough of an issue to win for the Democrats in Michigan, yet it could not bring them victories...
Evidently, this meant that Knowland can recess the Senate when its work is done. The committee will stay in Washington to study the Flanders motion and sift charges against McCarthy. When the committee is ready to report, the Senate can be called back to Washington to vote on the conduct of the junior Senator from Wisconsin...
...people he might get mixed up with. He'd have to live in Harlem, and believe me, that can be a bad place, full of people just waiting to part an innocent youngster from his money. Somebody had to see to it that Willie wasn't exploited, sift the chalk from the flour, figure out who was in a racket and who was representing a decent organization...
...over two of Huguette's five or six outposts. One 50-man suicide squad infiltrates the French center, gets within 200 yards of De Castries' command post before it is wiped out. De Castries calls out staff officers, cooks, orderlies, switchboard operators for the infantry fight. Reports sift out that De Castries has issued the order: "I expect all the troops to die at the positions assigned to them rather than retreat an inch." HQ denies it, but Dienbienphu surely teeters at death's edge. Then De Castries counterattacks...
...Recipe: 1 cup finely chopped nuts; 2 ounces sweet or semisweet chocolate; 2½ cups sifted flour; 4½ teaspoons double-acting baking powder; 1teaspoon each of salt and vanilla; 1½ cups sugar; ZA⅔ cup shortening; 1¼cups milk; ⅔ cup unbeaten egg whites. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Add shortening, milk and vanilla; beat 1½ minutes, 150 strokes per minute, until well-blended. Add egg whites; beat 1½ minutes. Spoon 1¼ of batter over nuts spaced evenly over two well-greased, lightly floured 9-in. round layer pans. Sprinkle with...