Word: sifted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Viet Nam last week had in many cases to make choices that might have left a Univac smoking. No fewer than 1,297 candidates were vying for 159 seats in the often rambunctious Lower House of the National Assembly. In one Saigon district, for example, voters had to sift through a sheaf of 81 ballots, each printed with a candidate's photograph and symbol, and choose five to seal in a little brown envelope, which then was dropped in a ballot box. In a number of areas, moreover, voters who wanted to register antigovernment sentiments found that balloting...
Each morning in Boise, Idaho, as many as 50 temporary employees of the First Security Bank enter a suite of six rooms and seat themselves at tables topped with small piles of thin strips of paper. They delicately sift and poke through the piles, plucking out individual strips and pasting them on pieces of cardboard. Nobody turns on the air conditioners; the breeze might scatter the strips. The workers labor intently for six hours daily through the heat and tedium, picking and pasting like finalists in a jigsaw puzzle Olympics...
...jeans and be myself although a somewhat foggy version. But oh the pain of the subtler forms of secretarial stereotype. Wouldn't it be easier, I have often thought, had it been clear from the cutest that I was going to be eaten alive, instead of being forced to sift ambiguities of kindly but well aimed jests? Consider the following secretarial dilemmas...
...scene of anything remotely interesting; sometimes so thick that no units are available for even the most critical of runs. To the rookie out his first night the radio sounds like several New England auctioneers going at once; before long you learn the various code numbers then to sift out the cars from the dispatchers, and finally to understand what's going on, Sometimes entire little dramas are acted out over the radio, complete with climax and curtain. Occasionally you can be the part...
...There is no reason to think that the part played in choosing the trustees by the Corporation will sift out radicals," said Constantine Simonides, special assistant to Johnson...