Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stimulating "scholarly and scientific research in the fundamental disciplines" among the generation of students interrupted by the war, the University has decided to shift the income of the Milton Fund and Clark Bequest so as to aid students primarily rather than members of the staff...
Holiday in the Sun. In Los Angeles, steel and electrical workers picketed or sat under beach umbrellas. For some, it was like a holiday. Theaters and stores in the Huntington Park industrial district did a roaring business. Said one striker: "All during the war I was on the night shift and now I'm going to see every damn wrestling match I can until the strike's over...
Gallery-goers who had come to expect murky realism of Charles Ephraim Burchfield were in for a surprise. Artist Burchfield has had a violent shift of purpose. One of the top half-dozen painters of the "American Scene," Burchfield, at 52, has decided that the look of a scene is not enough. Said he last week, as his first Manhattan show since 1943 opened: "Subject matter can be distracting; I'm trying to paint more what I feel...
...from his columns (if they bought space, they might get fired). But in dingy dressing rooms and rocking tourist sleepers, Variety became the hometown paper of every vaudevillager whose slanguage it spoke. Sime Silverman kept it a jump ahead of the sheriff and ahead of the times, managed to shift its accent to the movies long before vaudeville died...
...hours later another shift of MPs took over. The new sergeant made Fechner stand motionless with his face to the wall. After an hour and a half, the old man, an ex-concentration camp prisoner, collapsed. The sergeant ordered him up again. "You Nazi pig," he yelled, "for twelve years you raised your hand in the Nazi salute, and here you don't want to stand up!" At 2 a.m. the three Germans were turned over to the German police...