Word: stirred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unofficial entertaining or dining out is almost unknown to them-every spare moment belongs to the kids. On Sunday nights the family frequently eats supper at the Columbia Country Club, the one place in Washington where the arrival of the Nixons does not set off a stir. Nixon helped build the girls a tree house in the backyard, and he and Pat are faithful members of the Sidwell Friends School P.T.A. "Even though I'm gone a lot, I concentrate on the girls when I'm home," says Pat, "and I think I give them more attention than...
What, asked a reporter, did Meany think about the likelihood that Harlem Democrat Adam Clayton Powell Jr. will become chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee next year? "Terrible," said forthright George Meany. "He has a bad voting and absentee record. He uses his position to stir up racial hatred. It's terrible to think that we will have a man like that as chairman...
...figure that part of January's total is a carryover from November and December, it looks like a 6,100,000-car year, not too different from 1959." Chevrolet Boss Ed Cole, setting out with a phalanx of salesmen on a two-week tour to stir up dealers, quickly made his choice. Said he: "1960 promises to be one of the best selling years in history, and a record breaker for Chevrolet. We expect Chevrolet dealers to sell about 1,500,000 conventional passenger cars, 300,000 Corvairs and 365,000 trucks. Such an achievement would represent an alltime...
...good-will tour. "Hindi Russi bhai bhai [Indians and Russians are brothers]," cried Voroshilov at the airport, and Nehru gaily clutched the arm of the stalwart lady standing beside him, Mrs. Ekaterina Furtseva, member of the Soviet Communist Party's Presidium. Nehru had worked hard to stir up a welcome that would not compare too unfavorably with Ike's great reception, but Voroshilov's welcome was plainly not so spontaneous. Reason for Nehru's solicitude: he regards Russia as on his side in helping to restrain Peking's ambitions...
...After all the stir, Negroes never wanted to go to school with white people to begin with," Hodges concluded...