Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fast is the mysterious yearly shift of the Magnetic Pole...
Detonator. On Sept. 6 Superintendent Johnson had ordered children who were attending public schools outside their own districts to shift back at once. The decree, he explained, was intended to restore the city's numerically unbalanced classrooms to equilibrium. Parents retorted that to send their children to the appointed schools often meant sending them farther from home than before. Some 10,000 families sabotaged his plan by organizing mass hookey. Indignation meetings sent delegations buzzing to Johnson from all sections of the city. When his back doorstep was blown up, he had been ducking an Illinois Superior Court subpoena...
...this job was called, in governmental gobbledygook. Predetermination of Contract Cancellation. That jawbreaker meant something quite simple: war contractors can now pretend that their contracts have actually been canceled. Thus they can clear out of the way much of the time-eating labor that would hold up a swift shift to making peace goods...
...West Wall had come apart at a critical point, and he had no first-rate fighting men to cement the breaches. The might of Eisenhower's armies pressed in on him, threatened to engulf him at a dozen points, and he did not have the transport to shift his reserves (if any) to meet the worst of the threats...
...Lightning, which Lockheed will continue to build-but on a reduced schedule, to permit a shift to a new, secret Lockheed fighter...