Word: stirred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last summer, the British put the Pir in stir and declared war on his Hurs. Planes, tanks, cannon and parachutists invaded the sands, jungles and marshes of Sind. The Hurs had hatchets and blunderbusses. Some of them escaped by lying under water and breathing through straws, but the British wiped out most of the ringleaders and fanatics, battered down the walls of Golden...
There he built a new church, retired each morning to an office building to write his sermons, wrote with a vigorous accent that attracted big congregations. During World War I he went overseas with the Y.M.C.A., helped to stir up war sentiment as a lecturer for the British Ministry of Information. After the war, Baptist Fosdick was called to Manhattan's rich, influential First Presbyterian Church...
Confusion multiplied last week, and politics lent a hand to stir the confusion. The House Military Affairs Committee launched a bill forbidding induction of heads of families until all single men, all childless married men in each respective state had been called. A rider forbade induction by occupational groups, played hob with McNutt's plan to force nonessential workers into war industries...
...Jungeblut and Dr. Dalldorf hoped their "preliminary observations" would at least stir many a mouse-tolerant householder to action...
...Timesman wrote: "Not by a single word did she show any awareness that the rights of innocent passage and free landing . . . must and would be reciprocally agreed as between sovereign nations." Henry Wallace answered his detractor: "I am sure the vast bulk of the Republicans do not want to stir up animosity against either our Russian or English Allies. . . ." In Detroit, Poet Carl Sandburg interrupted a Lincoln Day speech: "I'm sorry for anybody who talks of 'globaloney'. . . ." Eleanor Roosevelt could not resist. Said she: "Well, are we going to have a peaceful world or aren...