Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter of charity, for the offending apparel had been bought by Iranian merchants in the U.S. and shipped to colleagues at home for resale. But Azerbaijan, while praising Franklin Roosevelt and his Lend-Lease, saw, under Truman, an evil policy shift for a sinister motive. The new U.S. line, said Azerbaijan, was "restriction of world trade to American monopoly, thus giving the Americans an opportunity to sell their secondhand clothes...
...Little One. The Government turned him down on many a request. It refused him three paid holidays, a 9½? shift differential, discounts for miners at company stores. He wanted the operators to pay for miners' explosives; he wanted 15 minutes more for miners' lunch periods...
...York, present Communist Boss William Zebulon Foster (no chess fan) was as jumpy as Browder was calm. He issued a statement that the capitalists' "wild orgies of speculation" about a possible Kremlin strategy shift were all nonsense. Foster would continue to battle "Browderism" in order to "pursue a correct Marxist policy...
...Quick Shift. From Paris had flowed a generous measure of the ideas that nourished Western democracy. Were Parisians hungry enough to forget their heritage of freedom? Jeannette Vermeersch and Maurice Thorez were betting that they were. Frenchmen everywhere, nearly as food-and fuel-conscious as the women of Les Halles, last week heard Communists making down-to-earth campaign speeches with little mention of Marxist ideas. By stressing the black market that fed the rich and starved the rest, Party Boss Thorez hoped he could make enough Frenchmen forget the less immediate but not less important issues involved in this...
...deep faith that grew in the Middle Ages, the flair of the Renaissance for zestful living produced men whose deaths were proud as well as pious. Mounting the scaffold, Sir Thomas More joked: "I pray thee, Mr. Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself...