Word: winnow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grappling with the problems of "The Psychiatrist and the Legal Process" and the perceptions of witnesses in court. "We discovered that the more punitive people in each of our groups had better recall than the less punitive," writes the author, who disputes the idea that the adversary system "can winnow out the truth...
...Thousand Days. Nevertheless, De Toledano's R.F.K. owes plenty to all three-along with dozens of other filchable Bobby notes and quotes from a multitude of other public-library-shelf sources. Predictaoly, the author has let his right-wing bias warp the good and winnow only the bad from the reams of words that have already been written about Bobby; he has created an absurdly baleful, paste-pot portrait of Kennedy that is as amateurishly written as it is inaccurately reported...
...winnow the entries down to 41 finalists, the magazine first called on graduate students associated with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for preliminary flight trials. Then, last week, all was ready for the grand three-hour fly-off of the finalists in New York's cavernous Hall of Science, a building in Flushing Meadow left over from the 1964-65 World's Fair. To keep the competition equally fair, the neutral students were tapped again as launchers, and contestants were separated into nonprofessionals and professionals (subscribers or people employed in aviation). As the paper planes swooped...
...vivant, as well as an influential critic and writer. From 1930 to 1964 Nicolson sat down each morning after breakfast and typed out an unsparingly candid account of what he had done, seen and thought the day before. In October 1964, when his son Nigel began to winnow through the notes, he found about 3,000,000 words...
...Their Toes. In the name of quality, Stokowski can winnow the ranks ruthlessly, has already gone through two concertmasters and eleven of the original twelve woodwind players. When one violinist came late to rehearsal, Stokowski ceremoniously pulled out his book and made a big circle around his name. Next day, a replacement was sitting in his chair. He can also be the very soul of charm. Says one musician: "He is like the morning fog. When it lifts, everything is wonderfully lucid and beautiful. When it falls again, he is absolutely inscrutable...