Word: agita
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...faux-Mexican fast-food chain can take only so much agita. After watching the first of DANA CARVEY's comedy shows, the folks at Taco Bell, a division of Pepsi, decided not to sponsor any more. On The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show, dancing tacos hailed Carvey as "our whore," and Princess Di was called a slut (twice). Hardly shocking for Carvey's regular audience, but this was prime time. Pizza Hut, another unit of Pepsi in line for top billing, also got cold feet. But the show drew big ratings, and ABC said it would be reined...
...while, is all I can possibly know of it. The wild gas, the fixed air, is plainly broke loose; but we ought to suspend our judgment until the first effervescence is a little subsided, till the liquor is cleared and until we see something deeper than the agita tion of a troubled and frothy surface. I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they have really received one." Which is to say that when people or ideas are unfettered, they are freed but not yet free. To be free, in fact, seems...
...Bennett wrote last week to the Governor of Michigan: "I wish to inform you that no labor dispute exists between this company and its employes, despite attempts of certain groups of labor agita tors to create the false impression with the public. This is the same group which introduced the 'sitdown' strikes to Amer ica and the reign of terror which followed. . . . These former 'sit-downers,' whose acts of terror in Michigan industry alone make Jan Valtin's revelations in Out of the Night seem like Mother Goose stories, would now sabotage the Defense Program...
...According to Chief Rogers, Captain Willmott, who died the evening before the disaster, had called Alagna "an agita tor and a vengeful person," had ordered Rogers to dismiss Alagna at the end of the voyage. When U. S. Attorney Martin Conboy who was conducting a Grand Jury investigation of his own, heard this, Radioman Alagna, already held as a mate rial witness, had his bail raised. It took two days to get the story straight: The extent of Alagna's agitation was to strike for better pay once just before sailing time. The extent of his "revenge...