Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Loveless, 45, is Iowa's first Democratic governor in 18 years, and, true to his name, is virtually the only Democrat to win state office in 1956. In his inaugural address he hit the G.O.P.-controlled legislature with carefully drawn proposals, including a hint that was bound to stir up the session: he would like a re-study of dry-inclined Iowa's stringent liquor regulations (package sales only...
...chilling swamp of unsolved problems. Nasser finds himself in need of pulling something out of his hat-something as spectacular as his Communist arms deal or his seizure of the canal company. But the rabbits left in his hat, if any, are skimpier. What can he do now to stir the popular imagination that does not risk disastrous consequences...
...brave defiance of superior odds has seized the world's imagination. But in Poland, say all reports, the fires of freedom smolder as hotly as in Hungary. They are kept in check by the way in which Communist Gomulka has achieved a provisional and perilous independence. The stir and prod of the Polish people on Gomulka, and the concessions he must make, are the best chance that Poland will achieve a peaceful transition from puppet state to the Finland model of cautious independence-but independence nonetheless-in the shadow of its big neighbors...
...stir up the mud. Help us on both sides of the Atlantic to see and think clearly. Sir, there is only one war: Christendom v. Communism. The present controversy in the Middle East is but one reflection of it. Every statement that blurs the issue is a blow for Communism. Confusion favors Moscow...
...discovery, made in 1953, caused little stir until a fortnight ago when Lindley's publicity-wise Shell Petroleum distributor got the press interested. Reporters and scholars flocked to the site. Sir Albert Richardson, president of the Royal Academy, traveled down to view the discovery, enthusiastically pronounced the paintings "unique." Said Egmont Lind, art restorer of Denmark's National Museum: "They are the only early wall paintings I have seen in England that have not been touched, apart from the deliberate disfigurement since the day they were painted...