Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...G.I.s fought gallantly, Howlin' Mad Smith relates. Bodies piled high before their guns. Their ammunition ran out. Then they were overrun, partly because their own 3rd Battalion made no attempt to shift over to help stop the fanatical Japs. The attack was finally halted by Marine artillerymen and a Reserve Army infantry regiment, after U.S. troops had suffered over 1,000 casualties. Smith then yanked the 27th out of the line, never let them do any more fighting in the Marianas...
What helps make a Tallulah filibuster spellbinding is the famed voice that can bounce a whisper off the balcony walls. Husky and vibrant (partly the product of childhood croupiness), it can shift without notice from a sigh in a rain barrel to a hoot in a hollow ("Are you ever taken for a man on the phone?" Columnist Earl Wilson once asked her. "No," she snapped...
...Crossley poll (which predicted a Dewey victory of 49.9%) had discovered an upsurge for Truman in the campaign's closing days, but underestimated it. In a statewide poll just before election, the Chicago Sun-Times found a shift to Truman (but did not trust it enough to print it) which indicated a 50.05% victory in Illinois (the actual vote was 50.68%). Said Editor Richard Finnegan: "This has taught us a poll is no good unless it follows the voter right up to the booth...
...there are lots of them--may oust some of last year's holdovers before the first snowfall, but on the basis of past performances, here's the way the Varsity may line up on December 4. Two Seniors, Captain Chip Gannon (provided he can shift gears from greensward to hardwood in time) and Walt McCurdy, will probably be at the guards. McCurdy, who played varsity ball for St. John's Invitation Tourney team in 1944 and led Iowa Seahawk scoring during the war seems to be fitting into Barclay's style of play better than he did last year...
...program opens the week, Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of physical training, announced yesterday. Facilities for the 11 cold weather sports are now available on the usual optional basis to upperclassmen and graduate students; freshmen, who are winding up their first introduction to the College's athletic program must shift from fall to winter sports by Saturday...