Word: sifted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some scientists are already looking ahead to creating bacteria that can help collect scarce metals by leaching (or dissolving) them directly out of the earth, or force out the last drops of petroleum from nearly exhausted wells, or even sift the diffuse quantities of gold in the world's oceans. Like faithful robots, they would work uncomplainingly, without interruption or distraction. All they would require is the appropriate nourishment and the right sort of care...
...more confident the claim of education to be able to sift human material during the early years of life, the more is mobility concentrated within those years, and consequently limited thereafter...
...expect disagreement and debate. But as journalists who believe that our role should be constructive as well as critical, we have given the nation's problems much thought; we have also made a sizable effort to sift the thinking of others and to present what we believe to be the best and most promising proposals. We hope that concerned citizens and experts in many groups, organizations, schools and colleges?possibly even in Government?will consider these issues anew. Our chief purpose is to dispel the notion that nothing can be done. Thus we also report on many people who have...
...after Panorama roared through San Bernardino, Mail Carrier Kathy Holland stopped her Jeep at a charred and empty lot on Sepulveda Avenue. "God, that one's gone too," she sighed, as she returned yet another packet of mail to her pouch. An engineer who came back to sift through the ashes of his home found his Thanksgiving turkey, frozen before the fire, charred to a crisp in the freezer. Another victim, Tony Marzullo, attempted to salvage humor from tragedy by spraying a For Sale-Cheap sign on what used to be a freezer and propping it up on what...
...more than the address and the salutation were constant in the letters. Ratliff's style never changed--a bare-bones prose that results, he says, from long hours of thinking before he puts pen to paper. "I read the news, and then I try to let it sift through my mental passages, so I can boil it down...People are not going to read long drawn-out writings," the University of Texas graduate says, adding that his models of clarity include Bertrand Russell, Leo Tolstoy and the King James Bible. All the letters are written early in the morning...