Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, a shift of interest from the closed class to the open class forced cancellation of both the closed singles and doubles and necessitated the re-adjustment of the open singles schedule, which was not yet available last night...
...Middlesex club boasts plenty of experience, gained in the local Paul Revere League and the Watertown Twi-League, where it has a record of 40 wins against 10 losses. Foster, one of its star pitchers, will shift allegiance and hurl for the Crimson tomorrow...
...mine had a good record of safety. State mine inspectors had checked and okayed it on May 29. The night of July 23, the large, 37-year-old mine had as usual been rock-dusted to localize possible gas explosions. But the next afternoon, while a full shift of 264 miners worked underground, a crushing blast shook one of No. 8's 500-ft.-deep galleries. Near the source of the explosion, 27 miners died, five were injured. The cause: "Ignition of methane...
...complex and so deep are the basic beliefs of the Germans that only a united effort could succeed in changing them. Thus up to now there has been no real shift in the German mentality, they claimed...
Molotov had hurried to Paris with an 89-man staff (including five bodyguards), which had been assembled overnight with Stakhanovite speed. At first, it looked as though Molotov intended to play along with the American plan for a while, and later try to shift the onus of a possible failure on to the U.S. How that might happen was explained by one diplomat in Paris: "Ice cream would have a better chance of surviving in hell than a big credit plan which includes the Russians would have in the U.S. Congress...