Word: sifting
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...unfinished The Hills Beyond, Wolfe ascends from the turmoil of his mind, and approaches some kind of artistic objectivity toward his life and toward the forces that had shaped him. In this fragment, Wolfe no longer translates his experiences directly into prose, but has begun to sift and temper them through the medium of his nearly mature artistic creativity...
...Shall We Dance?" As police began to sift the names that crammed three thick ledgers in Rubinstein's study, a glamorous procession of Serge's women friends minced into headquarters. Betty Reed, a platinum blonde soprano, was prostrated, but rallied to give hours of information to detectives. "He wanted desperately to be accepted," said Dorothea McCarthy, a redhead. "I once saw him send a bottle of champagne to a man. He said he had once done something to the man that was unforgivable, and he wanted to try to apologize." The man was unimpressed by Serge...
After most elections the nation can sit back, sift the results, and say that this and that have been proved. By these standards, Tuesday's balloting was the All-Purpose election. It gave each party's machine enough material to grind for a while-Democrats can say that the Administration is slipping and Republicans can say that the close figures indicate the G.O.P. is very much alive but the fact is that nothing really has been proved. Unemployment, apparently, was enough of an issue to win for the Democrats in Michigan, yet it could not bring them victories...
Evidently, this meant that Knowland can recess the Senate when its work is done. The committee will stay in Washington to study the Flanders motion and sift charges against McCarthy. When the committee is ready to report, the Senate can be called back to Washington to vote on the conduct of the junior Senator from Wisconsin...
...people he might get mixed up with. He'd have to live in Harlem, and believe me, that can be a bad place, full of people just waiting to part an innocent youngster from his money. Somebody had to see to it that Willie wasn't exploited, sift the chalk from the flour, figure out who was in a racket and who was representing a decent organization...