Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loss of 652 seats. Labor's loss in industrial areas was particularly notable. Grim and grimy Birmingham, which the Chamberlain family had accustomed to Tory rule, put 65 Tories in its council of 136. Manchester, Reading and Rugby went Conservative. It was the first major political shift in Britain in more than two years...
...dollar volume that had pushed first-half earnings to a peak. And most of the earnings were above last year's record heights. But some drops were shown by companies in such fields as food, textiles, retailing and electrical products. They were the first to feel a shift towards a buyers' market and consumers' balking at high prices. Thus, General Foods reported a third-quarter net of $4,463,255, or 5% less than in the same period last year...
...shift showed that the trade unionists had lost and the technocrats had won. Sir Stafford Cripps, who has just eclipsed Herbert Morrison as the No. 1 economic wizard, will have men of the "manager" rather than the "leader" type around him. Apparently, Attlee had decided that Britain's workers would remain politically loyal to the Labor Party even if some of their own men were removed from key spots...
First problem to be overcome by the male escort aspirant is getting through to the party. With veteran-swollen men's schools in the vicinity hiking the date rate to an all time high, one Radcliffe girl, working the evening eight to ten bells shift, said she answered the telephone at least a dozen times an hour...
Surprise move of yesterday's spirited session was the shift of former third-string quarterback Jim Noonan to starting tailback. Noonan's accuracy and drive brought on the change...