Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever the reason for the shift, it seemed a good guess that, with the war over, Russia wants her military leaders to take more & more of a back seat and mingle less & less with outsiders. From Washington last week came a significant story. When General Walter Bedell Smith, who had established close, cordial contacts with many a Soviet brasshat in Berlin, reached Moscow as U.S. Ambassador last spring, he invited seven of them (including Zhukov) to dinner at the Embassy. Only one (not Zhukov) came...
Another of Samborski's wizardries may shift Bob Carison over to the left garden from the position in the sunfield in the last till. Crawford "Call-me-Carl" Hurbbell will take over the stand in right unless he is called on to help out on the mound. Bill Harford, who has been hitting with increasing regularity, will round out the Crimson gardens...
...Quick Shift. On the evening of July 4, 1946, V. M. Molotov had said: "Tozhe ne vozrazhayu-I, too, do not object." The other delegates thought that sentence ended ten months of wrangling over convocation of the Peace Conference. But the worst was ahead. Next day, Molotov, as one American delegate put it, "seemed to be oozing vast gobs of grey sweat." He returned with tight-lipped truculence to the Soviet position of blocking the peace. First, he insisted on excluding China from the inviting powers. Byrnes called this "a gratuitous insult" to China, but finally agreed to accept...
Boogie Woogie & Bases. The extras included boogie-woogie bands and tightrope walkers. He put on a "swing shift" ball game (beginning at 6 a.m.) for night workers in war plants, and gave away sway-back nags and pigeons (without cages) as door prizes...
...State Department this spring (TIME, April 8). The Acheson plan divides atomic work into activities "dangerous" and "nondangerous" to world security. An international Atomic Development Authority would take over the dangerous enterprises, leaving the nondangerous to the nations. The plan admits that the line between the two may shift with future developments; one of ADA's prime functions would be to keep track of the shifting line...