Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...male schools, called "7005" (to tag them as a separate series), met different receptions. One opened in a rundown part of Brooklyn without a stir. But the other, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, brought violent protests from the district school board and the local P.T.A. One group grumbled that the old building should be torn down to make a playground for an adjoining new school. Other Villagers made plain their dislike of "a special school for a bunch of juvenile delinquents." Muttered a beat-pounding cop: "They ought to bring up a couple of drill instructors from Parris Island...
...labor unions would' quit pushing for a new round of wage boosts while the economy is drooping, retail prices might well decline far enough to stir plenty of consumer interest. In Manhattan, where the end of "Fair Trade" pricing on appliances brought a hot price-cutting war, housewives showed a frantic, elbowing eagerness to spend money for toasters, irons, rotisseries, clock radios...
...real cowboy. It was wonderful. He didn't know who I was. and all I know about him was that he was very big and kissed me good night. We got back to the ranch about 4 in the morning, and it was just like sneaking back into stir...
...blame for the classroom combat on a small core of Negro bullies whose methods were soon picked up by other pupils. Other troublemakers: chronic malcontents who have to stay in school under Missouri law until they are 16, and non-pupils who invade the school grounds to stir up trouble...
...journalists turned their backs on Britain's Prime Minister Macmillan and other visiting notables and rushed for the Vale. But for the first three days, the canny Sheik stayed put in the village of Kud among the snow-capped mountains, waiting for his followers to stir up a lion's welcome among the chilled and hungry Moslems of Srinagar. Reporters found him commanding and ramrod-straight as ever. "I am the same Sheik Abdullah," he flashed, "but I must feel the pulse of the people before I know what...