Word: shiftier
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...Well, polls are shifty beasts, and even shiftier than usual in July, when many voters' opinions are just beginning to form. But some pundit consensus has emerged on Gore's suddenly successful vote-hunting, and one of them might even be useful down the road. The transient? Bill Bradley. The languorous ex-candidate's equally languorous endorsement of Gore last week is thought to have attracted some independents to the Gore cause. Trouble is, these folks will probably hang around about as long as Bradley himself, who promptly disappeared. And John McCain is just waiting to steal them back...
...indicators of Keane's talent is that he did so well last year in his first season of collegiate racing. Collegiate competition differs from other regattas in many ways--the races are shorter, the water is in a confined area, the wind is shiftier, and there is a greater emphasis on strategy and tactics--and the fact that Keane can easily move from boat to boat, as well as amend his style and still win, is a tribute to his superior skills...
...smaller, shiftier Canadian team made two main scoring bids and seemed to have the better of things in the first half, when the wind was at their backs...
...Brailsford, longtime contributor to the Manchester Guardian in England, The New Republic here. His plea, From England to America, A Message, is an amplification of a New Republic article of June 17. In making it, he let out of the bag one of the biggest and blackest cats that shiftier interventionists have tried to hide...
...compares the Sophomore quartet to the 1929 edition of the Notre Dame horsemen and adds that while football history is studded with backfields as good or better than the "Four Furies" ... "we wouldn't trade Harvard's sophomore quartet for the present Notre Dame array. Mays is a shiftier carrier than Elder and almost as fleet in football clothes...