Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earlier in the day, Harlow moved Bill Jackson, one of five Varsity tailbacks, to the quarterback post, and Jackson ran with the Crimson first team. The shift was an insurance measure, since Goethals, while expected to be ready for Yale, may not be at topflight effectiveness...
...morning after the storm, many a Democrat struggled out of his Mae West and decided that something might be built out of such fine wreckage before 1948. Some tried to deny that there had been a Republican flood at all - just a heavy dew - cried that a small shift in the vote would have made all the difference. But Republicans, who had been saying the same things themselves for 14 long years, were confident that the salvage job would be a lot harder than it looked. They had been there...
...looping line, when linesmen move to the left, line backers shift to the right, to cover up the holes...
...modern theater. What seems strange is that 40 years ago it should have been so furiously attacked. Yet the half-whimsical satire of Synge's folk comedy enraged Dublin's patriots as a stab at Ireland, and incensed her puritans by mentioning a woman's "shift."*A few years later, in Manhattan, explosive Irish Americans started a theater riot that ex-President Teddy Roosevelt, seated in a box, aborted by speaking up for the play...
...points directly downward. This phenomenon does not usually terrify observers: they know that they are standing on the north magnetic pole, the umbilicus of the earth's magnetic field. When the magnetic pole changes its location, as it does, the needles of all the world's compasses shift a little...