Word: foment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Melliyun-I-Iran, a clandestine nationalist gang plotting with German secret agents to foment revolt against the Allied occupiers. On the side, Zahedi was making a tidy profit by commandeering the region's wheat stocks and holding on until starving Iranians forked over a top price...
According to Marxian dialectic, capitalists foment wars to boost their profits. According to an old Wall Street saw: 'Peace is bullish." Last week the hardbitten traders on the New York Stock Exchange proved the old saying right and Marx wrong. In the first few days after the Korean truce, the Dow-Jones industrial average advanced six points to 275, the highest level in two months, and ended July with the first monthly gain since last December. At the beginning of this week, the average continued the rise...
Last week, in the little red schoolhouse in Kapenguria, Jomo Kenyatta stood up for sentence, accused of having used his influence to foment unrest among the Kikuyu tribes, and of "managing the Mau Mau," the secret terrorist organization which has murdered 542 uncooperative Kikuyu and nine whites in the past year. Said Kenyatta, in a soft, purring voice: "We have not received justice . . . None of us would condone the mutilation of human beings. We have families...
...truce to this Anglo-American bickering, and a plague on those who foment it ... I have this to say to la Phillips of Hove [TIME, Feb. 23]: "Cockney" (and I'm a born Londoner) is an unpleasant whine, "Lancashire" murders the Queen's English and "Mayfair" is definitely, but definitely, effete...
...General Newton Estilac Leal. In the exchange of compliments, General Fiuza took occasion to deplore "the sinister infiltrations . . . that are penetrating our armed forces." General Estilac, a leftist who has consistently refrained from getting tough with Communists in the army, answered that "unscrupulous agents of intrigue are trying to foment disunion and mutual distrust with unfounded, unpatriotic accusations impugning the honor of high government officials...