Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beaverbrook In? Other pressures are at work. Fundamentally, Britons want a change-and dare not make a complete change at the top while the war is still on. A shift in the Foreign Office, perhaps others elsewhere, will give Britons a feeling that their Government has responded to their deep desire...
...into completed planes. Each complex is not only self-sustaining, but personnel and equipment of its units are interchangeable. . . . As soon as a plant in one complex is bombed out, its workers may be transported to a similar plant in another complex to be put on as an additional shift there and thus take up the slack caused by loss of the plant from which they have just been driven...
First official indication that Paraguay had followed Bolivia into totalitarian, anti-U.S. Argentina's growing bloc came from Washington. There the Paraguayan Embassy announced a change in Foreign Ministers, piously said that the shift "in no way alters the directives of the Government...
Born in Washington, D.C., Eric Johnston came by his faith in individual enterprise in the standard U.S. tradition. His tubercular father moved to Montana, then to Spokane, Wash., then on again, this time leaving his wife and small son to shift for themselves. Eric's working life started when he was scarcely out of rompers. From selling newspapers and running errands he progressed to working his way through high school and the University of Washington by reporting for newspapers, stevedoring in vacations. In World War I he went to the Orient as a Marine intelligence officer, stayed in service...
Last week Committee members were winding up the hearings in the East, preparing to shift to the West Coast. They had taken reams of testimony from ship operators, builders, designers, masters and Maritime Commission officials. They had discovered that serious structural failures have developed in only 62 of the 1,917 Liberties delivered up to Feb. 1. But until the C.I.O. National Maritime Union's President Joseph Curran took the stand last week they had heard only hazy, technical explanations of the cracks...