Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undergraduate golfers not on the Varsity squad will have to shift for themselves if they wish to find a place to play this spring, Carrol F. Getchell of the H.A.A. reported yesterday...
...output per worker. But the truth was that the British worker was not working very hard, and neither the British capitalist nor the Government was taking measures likely to supply either the incentive or the compulsion for greater effort. Nearly all British industries, for example, still worked only one shift, because workers were reluctant to change their accustomed hours. Said London's Times: "The trade unions hold the fate of this country in their hands as the R.A.F. held it seven years...
...wing of Montreal's league-leading Les Canadiens. He has made a runaway of this season's scoring race (with 36 goals, 22 assists), though for a while one rival club assigned two men to guard him - as frank a tribute as baseball's right-side shift against Batsman Ted Williams. They gave up that strategy when Rocket-Richard decoyed his defenders out of the play to give his mates a better shot at the cage...
...assist him, Builder Tu called on S. P. Lin (Purdue) and K. T. Fung (Princeton and Harvard). They had virtually no modern machinery, few tools, no new girders to repair bridge spans still lying twisted in river beds. But they made shift with what they had. And in six amazing months, the job was done...
...planned: a pyramidal structure lopped off at the top to provide a landing field for helicopters, a tall-spired kiosk to serve as a flower booth, and a two-story office building where the bereaved will be consulted, tombstones sold, and living space provided for a four-man night shift...