Word: shifting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...estimated. But, he argued, this is a dangerously narrow margin for the Democrats, who can lose a national election even if they take 52% of the popular vote, because so much of that vote is from the South, where big majorities do not swell the electoral vote proportionately. A shift of a few hundred thousand votes could throw New England, the Middle Atlantic States and the Pacific Coast to the G.O.P...
...years at Chicago, Stagg won 273 games, lost 142. On his teams played such alltime greats as Walter Eckersall, Fritz Crisler and Hugo Bezdek. Stagg used the first tackling dummy (an old mattress), originated the end-around play, the tackle back shift, was the first to use the hidden-ball principle. He developed the shift, which later became the mainspring of the Rockne system, and Rockne credited his offense to Stagg...
Beard's defense of Alexander Hamilton is typical of Beard's shift in emphasis. It is true, says Beard, that Hamilton thought of the "people" as a "great beast." But in The Federalist the "bastard brat of a Scotch peddler" (as John Adams called Hamilton) hailed the Constitution as a "people's document." The privilege of the "writ of habeas corpus," which guarantees individuals and groups against arbitrary imprisonment, covered everybody, not merely the "rich, wellborn and able." At one point in the symposium on "A More Perfect Union and Justice," Dr. Smyth tries to get Beard...
...defense job, is siren-songed by Axis agents, collared by Uncle Sam, and finally brought to his senses by hard-bitten visions of 1776, 1865, 1943. This fable gets a lift from such catchy tunes as It's Only the Beginning, Let's Be Americans All, Swing-Shift Sam and Swing-Shift Susie...
...Swing Shift Maisie (M.G.M.) is one of those B-budget marrow bones which are tossed to the simple appetites of the sticks, but which many a choosy cinemaddict prefers to the average A-budget epic. In part this is due to Cinemactress...