Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole list of projects designed to get unification of the services in form, if not in fact. In a matter of months, he announced, he hoped to have the top brass of the three services and 12,000 underlings relocated in new, chummy quarters in the Pentagon, a shift once estimated as a two-to three-year job. He ordered the Air Force's General Joseph T. McNarney to shake down the hundreds of duplicating and overlapping service boards and agencies. Four days later Johnson wiped out nine service boards as unnecessary. He made it plain that he would...
...editor of the Daily Worker in 1945 when the party shifted from its wartime policy of getting along with capitalism to a postwar policy of trying to overthrow the U.S. The shift was dictated by Dmitry Z. Manuilsky, Ukraine delegate to the U.N., who at the time...
...American party for not criticizing American officials more severely." The result was French Red Jacques Duclos' now famous Paris article castigating Earl Browder, then chief of the U.S. Communist party. Browder, who still stands ready to testify for the defense, was the fall guy of the Communist policy shift dictated by Moscow...
Strategy and hard necessity had dictated the shift. The greater threat to the postwar world lay across the Atlantic, a fact recognized by the North Atlantic pact. Under a peacetime budget, the U.S. could no longer maintain overwhelming defenses in both oceans at once...
...Blame Divided. For four hours-until after midnight-men & women, black & white, asked for more police, better street lighting, more housing. They shrieked derisively at bumbling council attempts to shift responsibility. But not all were ready to saddle the politicians with all the blame. Said the Rev. L. K. Jackson, Negro pastor of St. Paul's Baptist Church: "Even in my own church I was told that you can't fight gambling and prostitution. When I chose to fight the rackets, I was rapped by one of our Negro papers as a 'rabble-rouser.' The cure...