Word: sifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enough for All. Now gaunt, grey and ailing, Morgenthau has hired researchers to sift and summarize his giant diary. Last week one of them, Jonathan Grossman, a young (31) history instructor at New York's City College, gave the American Historical Association some revelations from the early years...
...eleven nations at the horseshoe table, including the three (France, Mexico, Poland) which had originally backed Russia's demand for immediate U.N. action against Franco, supported Australia's proposal for a five-man subcommittee to sift the facts on Spain and suggest by May 31 what "practical measures" U.N. could take. Andrei Gromyko said he "intensely disagreed" but would abstain, "realizing that my vote against the proposal would make its adoption impossible." Gromyko thus reiterated Russia's sweeping interpretation of the veto. Earlier, Russia had threatened another walkout from U.N. After the Council voted down...
Before the war, applications were handled as they came in, but the school has now decided to sift all applications six weeks before the beginning of the term so that late starters will be under no handicap...
...times the number of items that eventually get printed. But not so very long ago Ted Robinson, our People Editor, did all of them himself. Times have changed. The war has increased people's appetite for world news, and multiplied the work of TIME'S editors, who sift...
Moreover, Miss Johnson is a loving-almost a lustful-stylist. Her fondness for soft focus, for words like flow and sift and soft and grey, makes reading her prose, for all its earnestness and frequent beauty, a little like swallowing feathers...