Word: sifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fondest memory: [The good moments were] so few and far between. It takes a long time to sift through the chaff...
...first two best-selling novels, Presumed Innocent (1987) and The Burden of Proof (1990). The moral climate remains much the same as in the earlier books: inducements to lie, cheat, steal, even kill, proliferate, while those in the legal profession -- unsworn priests of the social order -- struggle to sift right from wrong and to keep themselves, if possible, uncorrupted...
Already, much has been lost. Now, Harvard Dining Services and the Office of Human Resources should make it a priority to sift through the Union situation. Harvard must address any charges promptly, and most importantly, make any changes necessary to ensure that no part of Harvard is a bad place to work...
...routinely discovers high and dry in the Sierra Nevada. "The whole vast assemblage of transported deep-ocean rock," writes McPhee, "now rests on California like a ship stuck in sand, listing thirty degrees to the west." Scientist and writer poke through the wreckage. They straddle fault lines and sift through road cuts while impatient drivers speed...
...that were ripped away in the blast. Before investigators can safely enter the blast site, workers must buttress the dangerous sagging remnants of the garage and lay a web of tubular steel beams across the crater left by the bomb. It may be days before investigators can begin to sift through the tons of debris for clues to the bomber...