Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Just as Talleyrand spent the Terror safely secluded in the United States, so did Thai work as a U.N. staff member in Togo, during the seven coups and dozen reshuffles since the fall of Diem. Thai's return suggests that he has mastered Talleyrand's chameleon-like ability to shift positions and survive...
Compared with 1964, Gallup is discerning a four and a half per cent shift to Labour which would be enough to win Labour 77 seats now held by the Conservatives and to give Wilson a majority of 167. The National Opinion Poll is showing a swing to Labour of five and a quarter per cent, enough to give Labour a majority over the Conservatives of around 190. If the swing is 4.3 per cent or more, Heath will lose his own constituency of Bexley...
...were held today, it is by no means clear that the Labour majority would be so great. Labour has led in the national polls throughout its 17 months in office, but in seven of eleven by-elections there has been a net-swing to the Conservatives. Moreover, the average shift in local council by-elections suggest that the Conservatives have kept pace with Labour...
...Miss Methfessel's problems is the yearly shift in housing. Leverett House, with the Towers, has solved that problem for its secretary, Sally Rusher, with a lottery that decides room assignments...
...wage earners, job hoppers and other risky borrowers to get car loans. The military draft is cooling sales in the youth market. This has hurt sales of the souped-up, big-engine models that youngsters fancy-and it has markedly reduced the popularity of the four-on-the-floor shift...