Word: sifted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrecks is often only the start. Sophisticated recovery techniques are needed to get at the loot. Various blowers are sometimes used to dislodge sand. The airlift, a sort of giant vacuum cleaner attached to the search ship via a long plastic tube, removes layers of sediment while divers sift for treasure. Diving methods developed for undersea commercial uses, such as seabed mining and pipeline building, have made it possible to salvage deep-water wrecks. A notable example: H.M.S. Edinburgh, a British cruiser that sank after a Nazi attack in the Barents Sea north of Murmansk, U.S.S.R., during World...
...most universities of Harvard's size or larger a well-chosen search committee, usually containing administrators, faculty and perhaps even students, would sift through potential candidates. While the president may chair the committee, as he does at Yale and Brown, at some places the panel has significant power...
Anyone who doubts that a magazine can rouse the passions of its readers need only sift through a sample of TIME'S weekly mail. There was, for instance, the woman from North Carolina who claimed that she broke into tears five times while reading the Nov. 14 issue. Her "flood of anguish" started with an article on funeral services for Marines killed in Lebanon. It continued through the story on the 20th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination ("I cannot relive those days without terrible pain"); the ordeal of Baby Jane Doe, the Long Island infant born with...
...John F. Kennedy's death in Dallas, Senior Writer Lance Morrow tries to distinguish between the 35th President's accomplishments and the en during myths. Observes Morrow: "The past inhabits us and defines us - and of ten haunts us. We need to go back to it, to sift it, in order to know who we are and how we became what we are." Morrow's re-examination is enhanced by photographs from Kennedy's presidency, some of them never before published. The work of former White House Photographer Jacques Lowe, they form part...
Efforts quickly were concentrated on separating the four floors of the building, once some 50 feet high but now crunched into about ten feet of rubble. Once a chunk of floor had been lifted away, a team of workers would sift the debris for corpses and personal effects. Some bodies were sandwiched between floors and ceilings and could be retrieved only by cutting off an arm or a leg. Rescuers emerged carrying blood-soaked buckets filled with limbs and tattered flesh. The Marines kept insisting that several comrades might still be found alive in the basement, but such hopes seemed...