Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generals but one: General Lauris Norstad, soon to be named to succeed retiring General Al Gruenther as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. Norstad argued convincingly that the Air Force was already getting more than twice the appropriations of the other services and that it was no time to stir up trouble. Norstad won few Air Force converts with his appeal, but he did have a sobering effect on the conference. Bob Scott's campaign was drastically watered down...
Even for the hardened inmates of a stir once notorious for its toughness, there was a jolt in the Page One banner-line on the Ohio Penitentiary News: CANCER RESEARCH VOLUNTEERS NEEDED. Then Dr. Richard H. Brooks spelled out his call for 25 prisoners to receive injections of human cancer cells in both arms, and concluded: "Anyone interested in volunteering for research on our yet most baffling problem of our age is requested to send a 'kite' to Warden Alvis." Kite is prison slang for a note, and last week Warden Ralph W. Alvis got 120 of them...
...penurious peers and vanishing stately homes, how can one tell whether an Englishman is a genuine member of the Upper Class? Last week, in a slim anthology of aristocratic manners edited by aristocratic Novelist Nancy Mitford (Noblesse Oblige; Hamish Hamilton), England got an answer that has managed to stir up everyone from Novelist Graham Greene to Actor John Loder. Not since Humorist Stephen Potter launched the cult of gamesmanship had the nation been so obsessed as it was over the difference between U (Upper Class...
Onetime Army Sergeant Greenglass, 34, had also had time in stir to think and find regrets. Of domestic Communism's most glorified modern-day martyrs, electrocuted Spies Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel (Greenglass' sister), David Greenglass, whose testimony had convicted them, spoke with mixed emotions. "It is a hard thing to be called a murderer," said he of himself. "These people were my flesh and blood. I felt affection for them, and still do, but if they had not wanted to be martyrs, they could have just put up their hands and said 'Stop...
...modern kitchen, all the cook must do is read the recipe, mix the ingredients, set the stove, and give the pot an occasional stir. To psychologist B.F. Skinner, the classroom is like a modern kitchen and "there is no reason why the school room should be any less mechanized than ... the kitchen." The teacher should remain, but only as cook...