While some guard shifts were especially cruel, others remained humane.
He may start Rodney Stuckey, the Pistons' only true point guard, shifting Iverson to shooting guard and Wallace to center.
We wore the same uniforms and rode in the same vehicles as the Afghan troops, spending long hours over dinners, patrols, and guard shifts talking about their hopes and fears now that American forces had pulled back.
I pull 12-hour guard shifts from 7 at night till 7 in the morning, and then I go on patrols some time in between those hours, and when I am not doing that I am usually sleeping.
They started cleaning nets when they were about eight years old; now they work largely on their own, pulling the first fish from the nets around sunset, shivering through overnight guard shifts, and hauling in the rest of their catch and taking it to market at sunrise, racing to reach a buyer and agree on a fair price before the salmon spoil.
An intensive search for the boys that involved several agencies, including the United States Coast Guard, shifted from a rescue effort to a recovery mission on Thursday, when, after 48 hours of searching, officials began to lose hope of finding the boys alive.
I showed it to Nicole Delmedico, who worked the same crossing-guard shift that I did, and whom I considered to be a close, nonsexual friend.
No matter what the builders of the prison have claimed, the imaginative and determined prisoner can always find somewhere, in a piece of wood or a rusty nail or the manner of the guards' shift change, the slim possibility that just might end in freedom.
I heard the sound of the security guards shifting their feet, the hum of vented air, the sigh of shoes walking on marble.
Often spending hours stealthily waiting for the security-guard shifts to change just to session an Allstate insurance sign for five minutes, these outlaws are in it for the love and nothing but the love.
At the snap, he tended to feint a move to the inside to try to force the guard to shift his weight to his inside foot, and then Karras would quickly break back to his outside.
