Word: siftings
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...Solomon reads like a song, but at other times, the musical myth diffuses not only the present world of the characters but the plot of the novel as well. The Biblical allegories and the legendsare themselves so radiant that they divert the reader from the much flatter characters who sift through this mystic past. Time becomes a very confusing element with dead characters too closely blended to living ones, adding incoherence to the work...
...some 35 minutes after the Secret Service had learned that Reagan had been shot, the White House finally informed the press of the injury. That delay, and others that followed, contributed to a sense of confusion as television networks, breaking off regular programming, struggled to sift fact from rumor...
Some scientists are already looking ahead to creating bacteria that can help collect scarce metals by leaching (or dissolving) them directly out of the earth, or force out the last drops of petroleum from nearly exhausted wells, or even sift the diffuse quantities of gold in the world's oceans. Like faithful robots, they would work uncomplainingly, without interruption or distraction. All they would require is the appropriate nourishment and the right sort of care...
...more confident the claim of education to be able to sift human material during the early years of life, the more is mobility concentrated within those years, and consequently limited thereafter...
...expect disagreement and debate. But as journalists who believe that our role should be constructive as well as critical, we have given the nation's problems much thought; we have also made a sizable effort to sift the thinking of others and to present what we believe to be the best and most promising proposals. We hope that concerned citizens and experts in many groups, organizations, schools and colleges?possibly even in Government?will consider these issues anew. Our chief purpose is to dispel the notion that nothing can be done. Thus we also report on many people who have...