Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conrad Richter-Knopf ($2.50). The first 70 pages of The Trees, which tell of the Luckett family alone in the tremendous forest of the Northwest Territory, build a savage, hypnotic atmosphere of a nation's prenatal silence. Once the Lucketts begin meeting people, and once life begins its shift from the hunter's to the farmer's economy, the story relaxes towards more ordinary folk-stuff. But Conrad Richter can teach most U. S. folk-writers a trick or two in the right use of archaic language, and his pioneers, unlike most in fiction, never preen themselves...
...Ciano. Hungary's Premier Count Paul Teleki rushed to Rome to make sure that Hungary's claims on Rumania were considered in any plan to change the Balkan status quo. The Italian press proceeded to play Hitler's game by accusing the Allies of trying to shift the war to the Balkans and the French Ambassador André François-Poncet hurried, home to Paris to confer with his Government. Still the balance of power in Europe seemed to be held by Mussolini...
...Shift? "A surprising number" of London Daily Express readers last week returned at their own expense answers to a questionnaire intended to sound British war sentiment. As to the war's outcome, 69.4% "feel confident of an Allied victory"; 27.6% do not; and 1.5% expect a stalemate. Of those who replied, 49.5% called "insecurity for the future" their "greatest wartime discomfort," but 46% are "determined to win at all costs"; 38.7% voted themselves "bewildered...
...that 50,000 Allied troops had been standing by ready to go to Finland's aid-an announcement too late to be of any military use and obviously intended merely as a talking point for the Finnish peace commissioners, then in Moscow. It also did its bit to shift the onus for Allied delay on to Scandinavia. "Our help in men," he said, "depends on Finland's appeal. . . . Why have we not received this appeal? It is because the Governments of Norway and Sweden have taken the position that they will oppose the passage of Allied troops across...
...outfield patrol with Torbie Macdonald and Gene Lovett in the other lead roles. The catching is uncertain as yet, but there is enough material there in Bill Parsons, Charley Spreyer, and Bob Regan to silence most doubts. They are all rather inexperienced, but good enough prospects to let Stahl shift Fulton last year's ranking backstop, out to third...