Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Historic Shift...
...lunar calculations did not picture the moon behaving as expected. The plane of its orbit around the earth intersects the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun at points (nodes) that move through 360° about six times per century. The chief cause of this lunar shift is the pull of the sun's gravitation, but there are other influences too, and when all the known effects had been cranked into the equations, a discrepancy of 25 sec. of arc (.007°) per century still persisted...
...staging the good lines, the nice phrases, and the archy's-eye point-of-view are lost. In book form, all archy's prose is in lower case (the cockroach typed out his copy by jumping onto the keys, but was not heavy enough to depress the shift lock). Unbroken by capital letters and sparsely punctuated, it reads like a kind of slow, dead-pan monotone and provides the perfect backdrop for the good phrase, the turned cliche, the well-dropped contradiction...
Reaction from the Boston School committee to the 140-page report was shift and highly negative. Mrs. Louise Hicks, the chairman, said yesterday that she was "appalled" at the idea students to achieve racial balance. She and her colleague, committeeman William O'Connor, urged a public referendum to resolve the issue...
Abolitionists claim that the shift in public opinion ironically puts accused murderers in double trouble by creating "hanging juries." By rejecting jurors who oppose execution, says University of Texas Law Professor Walter E. Oberer, prosecutors get jurors "who not only condone capital punishment, but believe in it." Abolitionists also argue that execution is performed capriciously -on only one out of 100 convicted murderers, and then usually on the poor, friendless and uneducated. Some 54% of the 3,885 Americans executed since 1930 have been Negroes, and in the 1950s, for example, Ohio executed 51% of whites and 78% of Negroes...