Word: stirred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though Hill Jr. kept mum on his plans, tobaccomen did not think he intended to stay out of the company his grandfather and father had built to its present size.The scuttlebutt was that Hill Jr. hoped to stir up enough support from stockholders to get back in on his own terms...
Nothing small about Mr. Kenton though. ... He harangued the one man who would stir this writer's emotions, and (I hope) a few others who detest Boy Scout Brass and the rest of this cacophony they euphemistically term "music...
...Japan itself, outside the general's own immediate circle, his entry into politics and the U.S. reaction created no great stir. MacArthur, acutely sensitive to criticism and impatient with opposition, has guarded his position as Japan's ruler by a tight censorship, designed to maintain his dignity, and thus the dignity of the U.S. As the first reaction to the candidacy began to filter back to Japan, the censorship was drawn tighter for both the Japanese press and U.S. Army publications...
...Mexico's Protestant Governor Thomas J. Mabry deplored efforts "to stir up religious misunderstanding." From the state's Catholic hierarchy came a statement: "The authorities of the Church in New Mexico have in no manner whatsoever entertained the muchly haunted and often misunderstood so-called union of church and state. It was only through a high sense of duty of her mission to promote the welfare of human society that the Church permitted itself to accept the office of teacher in the public schools. The Church desires only that justice be done and good will preserved...
...bordering swamps and forests, begin their raids. The Mauretanians are led by the Chief Ranger, a man who "hated the plough, the corn, the vine and the animals tamed by man, who looked with distaste on spacious dwellings and a free and open life. . . . Only then did his heart stir when moss and ivy grew green on the ruins of the towns, and under the broken tracery of vaulted cathedrals the bats fluttered in the moon. . . . Wherever the structures raised by the ordered life of man began to crumble, his brood sprang up like mushroom spawn...