Word: sifting
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...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...
...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...