Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anthony Eden must have smiled to himself. It was all very well for Molotov to deplore the strength of blocs-when Russia's growing bloc was not in question. The combined might of Russia and its European satellites had gravely worried the British, always sensitive to any shift in continental power. San Francisco, drawing the U.S. deeper & deeper into the world game of power, seemed also to be drawing the U.S. and Britain closer together. For the British, that was a comforting thought...
...fact seemed to be that the market was well over any reconversion jitters. Now that the shift from war to peace-had started (see Transition), the medicine was not as bitter as it had looked in the bottle...
...these first great steps to shift the U.S. from a two-front war to a one-front war did mean that, as war contracts are canceled, the manpower and materials freed will be shunted into civilian plants with a minimum of red tape. WPB still held up the go-ahead for the making of autos, refrigerators and washing machines...
Japan's foremost problem is not army manpower: new divisions are constantly being recruited. The problem is to guess when and where the invasion of the home islands is coming. If the Jap generals guess wrong, as they have so often done, there will be no time to shift dispositions. No Substitute. The invasion of the Jap heartland is definitely around the bend; Allied war planners in Washington know that there is no substitute for attack. No doubt Japan can be weakened further by naval blockade and stepped-up air bombardment, and U.S. air and Navy men who want...
...Denis danced the Resurrection in one Manhattan church, the 63rd Psalm in another, moved to California to build her temple of the dance. She worked in the graveyard shift (from midnight to 8 a.m.), sorting parts in an aircraft plant. Now she is rehearsing the 1 50th Psalm for a Hollywood Bowl performance in July...