Word: sifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...division is its planning and intelligence board in Washington-which includes an ex-foreign correspondent (the Chicago Daily News's Edgar Ansel Mowrer), an economist (James Warburg), representatives of the Army (Colonel Oscar Solbert), Navy (Captain Homer L. Grosskopf), State Department. The board's job is to sift the vast portfolio of U.S. Government information on domestic and foreign events, pass it on to the operations division in the form of directives that fix the U.S. propaganda line for each country...
This was the time one was supposed to think back over the last four years, to sum them up, to sift the wheat from the chaff, to see everything in its proper proportion. Vag had a jumbled image of the Larz Anderson Bridge on a Saturday afternoon in the fall, of the workmen putting wooden treads on the Widener steps and driving stakes into the ground to guide the snow-plows, of Memorial Hall, with thin trickles of sunlight straining through the colored glasses, and rows of heads bent over tables, and of that first light green tinge the trees...
...CHUCKLING FINGERS-Mabel Seeley-Crime Club ($2). A subtly contrived campaign to convince a Great Lakes lumberman that his young second wife has homicidal tendencies culminates in murder of his son. A girl cousin helps police sift the suspects. Equals earlier Seeley stories (Crying Sisters, etc.) in craftmanship, characterization, unflagging interest...