Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...change has been made, however, in the early morning routine which still includes first call, assembly, and reveille at 5:30, 5:55, and 6:00 respectively, as in the past. Chapel devotions have been moved up half an hour in order to accommodate the shift in academic hours...
...next morning began two aching days. The first was a 16-hour shift, the second a dawn-to-midnight spell. No one talked of time-and-a-half for overtime, though the union was paying the men for time lost in the shops. Under the grinning guidance of the troopers, the earnest 250, helmeted and in fatigue uniforms, carried on with aging muscles and unpracticed bodies. Older unionists dropped out now & then for a breather; younger ones plowed on through the stiff routine...
...would see baseball much as usual. To compensate for an inevitable slump in the quality of play, the major leagues decided to restore the lively ball (and home runs) of 1939. To cut travel, each team will make three trips around the league instead of four. To suit swing-shift workers, the clubs will consider playing some morning games...
...Giraud. It was a slow and curious transition, and it was not all brought about by Giraud himself. Partly because of his own predilections and tendencies toward authoritarian ways, more because of the still cloudy policy of the U.S., the stench of Darlan along with his mantle seemed to shift to Giraud. Did he, Giraud, not harbor and use the same Vichyites whom Darlan had placed or kept in power? So, for weeks, it seemed to the world...
...shift of policy came in a radio message from Washington to the First Service Command, Perkins revealed, and has forced his office to extend the closing date for applications to take this examination to Thursday at 5 o'clock...