Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could not shake the fear that he might never recover completely. After his death, attendants found evidence of the lonely struggle of his wounded mind: a book, opened to Sophocles' "Chorus from Ajax," lay beside his bed. He had been reading...
Then a serious nervous shake-up forced Mr. Forrestal to resign, and Louis A. Johnson, with a reputedly pro-Army background, took over. The Air Force promptly renewed the fight, claiming that the big carrier, scheduled to be laid down in early April, was superfluous and eminently vulnerable. The airmen said the cost of the ship was too high for its usefulness, that it was an infringement on their "rightful control of strategic bombing." The Navy fought back, citing the fine record of its carriers in the World War II Pacific campaigns. Then the Air Force appeared with its trump...
Exit Sluggards. Not all of this shake-out in employment was caused by a cut in production; nor was it necessarily damaging to the economy. The years of manpower shortages had brought into the labor force inefficient marginal workers (older people, housewives, etc.) who would not normally have been there. They were being weeded out along with the sluggards. Costly overtime and extra shifts were being abolished...
...doubtful whether the tonal characteristics of the Boston Symphony will change greatly under Munch. There will be shifts among the musicians--there always are--but it is very unlikely that Munch will attempt to completely shake up the orchestra in order to make it sound like a French ensemble. Aside from the impracticality of such a step, Munch looks at the Boston Symphony as a completely different instrument from those he has led in France, not necessar-6The Boston Symphony's new conductor CHARLES MUNCH chats with his predecessor SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY after the Symphony Hall appearance of the Orchestre National...
Faced by these difficulties, reporters and editors were less inclined to give a last-minute story the old college try. Last week, Colonel Bertie McCormick's Tribune and Marshall Field's tabloid Sun-Times both settled for bulletins on a shake-up at Montgomery Ward's (see BUSINESS) that might have filled a column in the same edition in the old days. Said Sun-Times City Editor Karin Walsh: "If we don't hit it in one edition, we'll get it in the next." Even bulletins were made possible only by the Graphotype...