Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly all week the skies over Moscow were dull, dripping, cold. One evening, when damp workers were hurrying home or to night-shift jobs, the familiar voice of Announcer Yuri Levitan boomed at them from loudspeakers in the squares: "Govorit Moskva! [Moscow speaking!] Citizens, today at 7:40 there will be transmitted over the radio important news. Listen! . . . Citizens, listen...
...face was often grossly edematous with the eyes completely closed. There was a strong tendency for the edema to shift with gravity. . . . Unnatural creases appeared [and the expression became] toneless and gloomy . . . quite repulsive. . .. . The loss of the normal silky luster of Chinese hair in someone who was seen before and after several months of slow starvation was quite striking...
...parades, 1,550 miles apart, reflected the mortal shift in Nazi fortunes last week...
What could be done, I asked the commander. He said his decision had been made by higher headquarters-he was to shift attacking forces from the railroad into the hills, try to bypass the Jap garrison, close with the enemy positions at some point nearer Hengyang high in the roadless hills. We could go with him or return. We thanked him, said we would go back and write what his men had tried...
...fled the capital for their old jobs. Fortnight ago WPB's Deputy Vice Chairman for Metals Howard Young resumed the presidency of American Zinc Lead and Smelting Co. Assistant WPB Steel Director Joseph L. Block has returned to the executive vice-presidency of Inland Steel Co. Others are shifting uneasily behind their desks as they shuffle the piles of paper from the In-box to the Outbox. More & more U.S. businessmen feel that the U.S. is getting very close to the shift toward large-scale civilian production. And many a corporation had warned its lend-leased talent: come...