Shifty definition: 1. Looking or seeming dishonest: 2. Looking or seeming dishonest: 3. Intelligent and skilled in. Shifty is a young crack cocaine dealer with a regular clientele - a addicted building site worker Trevor (Jay Simpson) married to a disillusioned wife (who thought he had given up drugs) with three kids, a crack smoking old lady Valerie (Francesca Annis) in her familiar looking flat, framed photograph of a daughter, grand daughter on the mantle. 21 synonyms of shifty from the Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, plus 71 related words, definitions, and antonyms. Find another word for shifty. Shifty: given to acting in secret and to concealing one's intentions. Synonyms: furtive, shady, slippery Antonyms. Shifty (2008) is a British urban crime thriller, written and directed by Eran Creevy.Set on the outskirts of London and filmed in Borehamwood, Shifty follows themes of friendship and loyalty over the course of 24 hours in the life of a young drug dealer, the charismatic Shifty. Shifty was filmed predominantly in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, the home of Elstree Studios.
Examples of shifty in a Sentence
Harry S Truman:
Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar. . . . .He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
President Donald Trump:
Shifty Schiff is Shifty Schiff, shifty Schiff took my words on the phone call and they were so good. Shifty Schiff totally changed them.
Maine Gov. Paul LePage:
These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty, they come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, then they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave.
P. G. Wodehouse:
..the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.
Paul LePage:
These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty, these types of guys. They come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, and they go back home, incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave, which is a real sad thing because then we have another issue that we've got to deal with down the road.
| Nickname(s) | 'Shifty' |
|---|---|
| Born | March 13, 1923 Clinchco, Virginia, US |
| Died | June 17, 2009 (aged 86) Clinchco, Virginia, US |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Service/branch | United States Army |
| Years of service | 1942–1945 |
| Rank | Staff Sergeant |
| Unit | E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
| Awards | Bronze Star Medal (2) |
| Relations |
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| Other work | Machinist |
Staff SergeantDarrell C. 'Shifty' Powers (13 March 1923 – 17 June 2009)[1] was a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. Powers was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Peter Youngblood Hills.
The 2011 book Shifty's War by journalist Marcus Brotherton, published by Penguin/Berkley-Caliber, captures Sgt. Powers' full life story.[2] Powers was one of the twenty contributors to the 2009 book We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers.
Early life[edit]
Powers was born in Clinchco, Virginia. His father was an excellent rifle and pistol shot, and taught him how to shoot when he was young.[3] Shifty spent a great deal of time in the outdoors, hunting game.[4] He got to the point where he could throw a coin in the air and hit it with a rifle.[3] Many of the skills he obtained helped him as a soldier.
Powers graduated from high school and took a machinist course in a vocational school in Norfolk. There he befriended Robert 'Popeye' Wynn, and the two went to work in the shipyards in Portsmouth after finishing the course.[5] When they found out that they were about to be frozen to the jobs, they went to sign up for the Army. Powers enlisted on 14 August 1942, at Richmond, Virginia.[6]
Powers' nickname 'Shifty' originated from his basketball days and his ability to be 'shifty' on his feet.[7]
Military service[edit]
Powers followed Easy Company to station in Aldbourne, England. He was shocked to see that the residents there were prepared to defend themselves against the Germans with only garden implements. He thought it would have been a massacre if the Germans had indeed invaded Aldbourne.[8]
Powers jumped into Normandy on D-Day. Missing his drop zone, he joined two others from the company and the three linked up with Easy Company several days later to fight in Carentan. Powers participated in the Allied military operation Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands.
Powers also fought in the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium. On 29 December 1944, when Easy Company was staying in the woods, Powers noticed a tree that was not there just the day before and reported it to First Sergeant Carwood Lipton. The 'tree' was ultimately discovered to be part of the camouflage the Germans put up for their anti-aircraft battery. Lipton got approval for full battery fire to attack the area despite the short supply of artillery ammunition and the area was deserted within an hour. Os catalina. Many lives were probably saved with the destruction of the German anti-aircraft battery. Lipton commented, 'It all happened, because Shifty saw a tree almost a mile away that hadn't been there the day before.' It was one of Powers' most truly remarkable achievements and a testament to the extraordinary gifts his backwoods upbringing brought to Easy Company.[9]
On 13 January 1945, when Easy Company was attacking Foy, several of the men were pinned down by a sniper that nobody could locate. Suddenly, Powers yelled, 'I see him!' and fired his rifle, killing the sniper. Later, when Carwood Lipton and Wynn found the sniper's corpse, they were shocked to see the bullet hole centered in the middle of his forehead. Wynn commented, 'You know, it just doesn't pay to be shootin' at Shifty when he's got a rifle.'[10][11]
Powers was one of the very few who was never wounded in combat. It was for this reason that Powers lacked the sufficient points to return home under the military point system, although he was there every day when Easy Company fought on the line.[12] Powers joined the lottery that was organized to allow one man from each company to return home early on a furlough.[13] During the trip to the airfield, the vehicle that Shifty was in was involved in an accident and he was badly injured.[13] He spent many months recuperating in hospitals overseas while his comrades in arms arrived home long before he did.[13]
Later years[edit]
Honorably discharged from the Army in the postwar demobilization, Powers became a machinist. He was married to his wife Dorothy for 60 years at the time of his death. He moved to California, got a machinist job there and stayed there for three years with his family. He was laid off when the company he worked for lost a government contract, so he returned home. He worked as a machinist for the Clinchfield Coal Corporation for more than twenty years.
Powers, in his later years, was in declining health and depressed. The Powers family noted the release of the Band of Brothers TV miniseries and the subsequent speaking engagements brought Powers out of the depression and speculated that the series bought Powers extra years of life.[14]
Powers is listed as one of 20 men from Easy Company who contributed to the 2009 book We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers, published by Penguin/Berkley-Caliber.
User guidesimac g4. Powers died of lung cancer on 17 June 2009, in Dickenson County, Virginia. He is buried at Temple Hill Memorial Park, Castlewood, Russell County, Virginia.
Band of Brothers[edit]
In the first edition of the book Band of Brothers, author Ambrose wrote that on 23 December 1944, Powers disobeyed a direct order from LieutenantEdward Shames to go out on patrol because he was discouraged. Both Shames and Powers denied that had happened, with Powers calling the insinuation 'a slap in the face.' Upon request and verification, Ambrose deleted that story from the later edition of the book.[15]
Powers was a character in the HBO Band of Brothers TV miniseries. In the episode 'The Last Patrol', Powers was shown to be one of the soldiers participating in the patrol mission; However, in reality, Powers was not on that patrol.[16]
Medals and decorations[edit]
Staff Sergeant Darrell C. 'Shifty' Powers' medals and decorations included:
| Badge | Combat Infantryman Badge | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st row | Bronze Star Medal w/ 1 oak leaf cluster | Army Good Conduct Medal | American Defence Service Medal | ||||||||||
| 2nd row | American Campaign Medal | European–African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with 3 service stars and 1 arrow-device | World War II Victory Medal | ||||||||||
| Unit Award | Presidential Unit Citation w/ 1 oak leaf cluster | ||||||||||||
References[edit]
- ^'United States Social Security Death Index,' database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J5P8-K5Q : 19 May 2014), Darrell C Powers, 17 Jun 2009; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
- ^Shifty's War – Books by Marcus Brotherton – Penguin Group (USA)
- ^ abLocation 269, Brotherton
- ^Brotherton, p.5.
- ^Location 758, Brotherton
- ^WWII Army Enlistment Records: on-line NARA Archival Database
- ^Location 3559, Brotherton (2011)
- ^Location 1624, Brotherton
- ^Chapter 11, Ambrose
- ^Location 3647, Brotherton (2011)
- ^Ambrose, pp.211–212.
- ^Location 2962, Brotherton
- ^ abcAmbrose, p.282.
- ^Location 3666, Brotherton (2011)
- ^p.220, Brotherton, 2011
- ^Location 3656, Brotherton (2011)
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Bibliography[edit]
- Ambrose, Stephen E. (1992). Band of Brothers: Easy Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest. Simon & Schuster. ISBN978-0-7434-6411-6.
- Brotherton, Marcus (2009). We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from The Band of Brothers. Berkley Caliber. ISBN0-7434-6411-7.
- Brotherton, Marcus (2011). Shifty's War: The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell 'Shifty' Powers, the Legendary Sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers. Berkley Caliber. ISBN978-0-425-24097-7.
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External links[edit]
- Darrell C. 'Shifty' Powers at Find a Grave