Word: astir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Western Europe was astir. It was moving farther and faster toward the union which was its best chance for survival than anyone would have thought possible a few years, or even a few weeks, ago. Old notions of sovereignty were sloughed off, old jealousies pushed aside...
...White House's big, high-ceilinged rooms were astir with all the pleasant bustle of a holiday weekend. Margaret was back from her concert tour...
Senator Taft, who will be faced by both friends and foes at the Faculty's noon repast, has set political dopesters astir in recent weeks by his repeated appearances on the same platform with Harold E. Stassen, only avowed Republican presidential candidate and former Governor of Minnesota...
...distraction. In its progression, elaboration and somber irony, his prose rarely loses for long the immediate visual impact of phrases such as the one describing Kurtz, emaciated yet commanding, sitting up to harangue the natives in Heart of Darkness: "I could see the cage of his ribs all astir, the bones of his arm waving...
Last week Waterloo was astir with the biggest local news in 25 years. By state order, the school had been shut down...