Word: siftings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stade observed the irony of the whole affair: "Right now we're in the middle of admissions for 1969. We have 6500 people of whom 6000 are absolutely qualified. We'll sift through the applications and try to pick the 1200 most promising and exciting people. And yet, a year hence, the Masters will took at some of these fellows and say 'What an uninteresting and dull group...
...night now," a California private detective admitted last week. "The way they use these carbons only once now, it's a cinch." Not all of the espionage work is underhand, of course: many companies regularly instruct salesmen and other fieldworkers to report back any news and gossip, also sift trade journals, advertisements and Government reports for additional wisps of information...
...increased counseling of students has also served to sift off some applicants, Crooks pointed...
Before coming to any decision, he said, HSA managers will sift through the records of complaints to see "what kind of service will satisfy most of them." As a preliminary move, "we're trying to straighten out our records so we can sift through them," he said...
Breathlessly, they announced that as Nkrumah was leaving Flagstaff House, an assailant in a police uniform fired five shots from a .303 rifle at close range, mortally wounding one of Osagyefo's guards. In Accra these days, it is difficult to sift fact from propaganda, but according to the official version of the incident, Nkrumah himself grappled with the would be killer and finally disarmed him. "Don't hurt him," Nkrumah was quoted as yelling to the guards. "Don't kill him. Put your guns down." All the while, proclaimed the official party newspaper admiringly, Osagyefo held...