Word: sifted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...noise and glare of the outside world would not disrupt his concentration. In an electronic culture where the media forms public opinion through momentary impressions, where fragmentary polls haphazardly spell out the political future, Lippmann's example of a diligent, reflective spokesman who found the time and patience to sift through complex issues and arrive at stark but usually accurate conclusions could serve our period well
...gold rush is even attracting miners with pick and pan. Some 654 small mining claims were filed in California last month, and as many as 100,000 part-time prospectors now sift through the gravel beds of streams and rivers looking for nuggets that the Forty-Niners left behind. Big companies are having luck but individual miners say that pickings are slim...
...periods of East-West tension, passages from its pages are quoted in the Western press like captured battlefield communiqués. Specialists in Bonn, London, Paris and Washington sift through its stilted, often impenetrable prose searching for subtle shifts in foreign policy. Photographs of the ruling elite are scrutinized for changes in status, and cartoons are scoured for arcane political references. "Pravda," says its editor, Victor Afanasyev, "is read on the lines and between the lines...
...generals have decided that any effort to require some military service of Americans would be unnecessary or, at any rate, too socially mischievous to risk. Many military planners believe that a return to the draft would be logistically inefficient (too many bodies coming of age all at once to sift through); on purely technical grounds, the matter is open to debate. Much more fascinating is the moral context in which Americans now frame the possibility of obliging citizens to relinquish their freedom for a while and put themselves physically on the line for their country...
...only by the existence of a heretofore unrecognized "something" having several million times the mass of our Sun. Gulping perhaps whole stars, and presumably growing, this bizarre region is probably a black hole. The qualifier is needed because we are still learning how to grope in the dark, to sift through the clues contained in invisible radiation. Like the archeologist who digs through ancient rubble in search of hints about the origin and evolution of culture, the astrophysicist interprets radiation, seeking clues about the origin and evolution of galaxies, all of which may have black holes in their hearts...