Word: siftings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City, the most heated issue concerned the fate of Mayor John Lindsay's civilian-dominated police review board, set up last summer to hear and sift charges of police malfeasance or brutality. Most top politicians of both parties campaigned for the board. The police bitterly opposed it, and the majority (63%) of voters agreed that the board would inhibit the cop on the beat and send the crime rate soaring. The board was summarily killed...
...says, "I never studied painting. When I decided to paint, I started the way primitive painters do, just trying to paint it like it is." Painting it like it is does not mean simply recording a scene; Cloar feels he must color the experience, sift the facts through memory and imagination. To bring his memories alive, he often turns to a well-worn family album. It helps with the crucial details, he says, "the features, the dress, the wrinkles-the things you'd never remember...
...about third-degree tactics used to coerce confessions, he claimed, "are destined to lie as skillfully about warnings and waivers." And anyway, he asked, what is wrong with a little pressure on a suspect? "Until today," he answered, "the role of the Constitution has been only to sift out undue pressure...
...divorced in 1927. Maugham wanted to leave the bulk of his possessions to his secretary and male companion of 36 years. His daughter, Lady Glendevon, took Maugham to court, and after a lot of nasty publicity, he lost the case. Vowing, after The Summing Up, never again to sift through an old man's memories, Maugham changed his mind and published some bickering memoirs that included further recriminations against his daughter-leaving his readers to conclude that here indeed was a homosexual who should never have got married for whatever reasons of propriety...
...makes dozens, including sheets, towels, blankets, stockings and draperies. The industry also has prospered as a result of imaginative research. For example, Burlington Industries, the largest of them all (1965 sales: $1.3 billion), sells thermal-lined draperies with a thin layer of acrylic that effectively absorbs cold drafts that sift in through window frames. Possible products now undergoing final tests in Burlington labs: a carpet woven with stainless steel filaments that will eliminate static electricity; a new drapery lining that by chemical action can control the amount of light filtering through it, with the result that more light will...