Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early and mid-'60s saw the society's heyday; Life,, in its "Washington Report," said the society was engaged in "a massive shift from a semi-clandestine political guerilla force to a quasi-respectable pressure group," devoted mostly to withdrawal from the U.N., exposure of the civil rights "fraud," and the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren. Then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy '48 placed the group "in the area of being humorous." But Sen. Barry Goldwater (RAriz.), in a comment that would haunt him in his presidential bid, said, "I am impressed by the people...
...time when, if your name didn't end in 'ski,' you couldn't get in here," says one plant official. Old World bakeries and sausage shops sprang up. Bars and beer gardens huddled around the giant factory to wet a thousand throats at shift change...
...democratic, workingman's town that drew Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson and Jack Kennedy to campaign alongside proud mayors like Albert Zak, Joseph Grzecki and Raymond Wojtowicz. Robert Kozeran, the city's current mayor, remembers that at 9 p.m., when the factory whistle sounded to end the second shift, "If you were a kid and you weren't in your house, the cops brought you home," and there would be hell to pay from...
Penn's Roger Reina managed to reverse McNerney twice while the 126-Iber. tried to shift to the cradle, then fell victim to McNerney's unorthodox but heads-up style for a 9-6 loss...
Bush has a similar opportunity. He has served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, chairman of the Republican National Committee and official liason to China, but his elected experience includes only an unspectacular four years in Congress. Bush can and does shift from moderate to conservative rhetoric, depending on who is listening, because he has no voting record or recent link to official policy...