Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Starting at 5 p.m., students will be cooking dinner, preparing the shelter dining room, chatting with guests, setting up beds and "playing cards," said Maria P. Rogahn '95, director of volunteers. Night shift workers will stay in the shelter from 11 p.m. until 6:30 a.m. to counsel guests and ensure that the shelter runs smoothly...
...said crime was a big issue this year and that voters were putting some of the blame on firearms, both houses of Congress adopted potent gun-control measures. Though any of them could be modified or killed when the full crime bill is voted on, they represent a genuine shift in the willingness of Congress -- which made its last serious attempt to curb guns in 1968 -- to deal with the problems of a nation where one person is shot every 14 minutes. "At long last Congress is getting the message," says Jeff Muchnick, legislative director of the Coalition to Stop...
...next shift Harvard sophomore Peter McLaughlin took a cross-checking penalty in his own zone, something that would foreshadow the Crimson's sloppiness in the final forty minutes, but aggressive penalty killing stymied the Eli power play...
Rumor had it that the officer escorting Ryan on the rounds would show up at Holyoke Center around 6 p.m., two hours into the patroller's 4 p.m.-to-midnight shift...
...This shift of emphasis in characterization also affects the rest of the film. The movie frequently omits material necessary for us to understand the psychological state of the characters. For instance, in one scene Lord Darlington appears enamored of a countess who awkwardly lip-synches a German song, while in a slightly later scene, he insists that two Jewish serving girls be dismissed; what is not made clear in the movie is that he dismisses the two girls under the romantic influence of the countess, and that, when, feeling somewhat guilty a year later, he attempts to trace...