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Word: stirred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Grau next day at a press conference: The plot was hatched by "capitalists who had business deals with the Batista regime." Large sums were spent on a press campaign to stir up trouble. Plans included his own assassination and that of his Chief of Staff. "I have no sure proof," said Grau, "of [Batista's] participation, but neither have I proof that he is not involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Cloaks & Daggers | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...stir up the Bennettsky Cerfskys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tempest in a Samovar | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...office, never to the public, do they call themselves the "greatest seconds in the business." But True Confessions began three years after Macfadden's phenomenal True Story ; Modern Mechanics, started in 1928, changed its name to Mechanic Illustrated because Popular Mechanics objected. When Ballyhoo created a big, brief stir in 1931, the Fawcetts came up with Hooey. When LIFE scored, the Fawcetts brought out a picture magazine called Spot. Their No. 1 comic hero is wonder working, high-flying Captain Marvel, and he is currently court-bound as too close an imitation of Superman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Fawcett Formula | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...entertainer who is creating such a multilingual stir, Sergeant Desmond is modesty itself. When he sang for the 101st Airborne Division, his appreciative audience presented him with a complete paratrooper's outfit and honorary membership in the division. Johnny is especially pleased about the G.I. reaction: "I used to be afraid the real soldiers wouldn't like me," he says, "but they don't seem to mind me being a swooner." The band's publicity-minded program director, Warrant Officer Paul Dudley, says with boding triumph: "Sinatra is apt to push; The Creamer just bides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Creamer | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

...many voices, which were drowned in the next wave of bombs, more fearful than the first. 'For heaven's sake, stop it!' a woman screamed somewhere in the darkness. 'Shut up with that,' broke in a rough man's voice. A stir ran through the tightly packed people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Doomed | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

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