Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woman who is creating the biggest stir in the U.S. this week is an attractive, 33-year-old Pueblo, Colo, housewife named Virginia Tighe. Millions of Americans know her in another personality as Bridey Murphy, the necromantic heroine of The Search for Bridey Murphy who has made reincarnation a fad more entrancing than canasta or flying saucers...
Pineau spoke with the acerbity of a Frenchman sick and tired of hearing only criticism from his allies. His speech made no stir in France, a nation oppressed by long years of retreat and humiliation, and all too ready to believe that the fault must be somewhere else...
...last few weeks before Ike's announcement, businessmen became confident that he would indeed say yes. Thus, when the final decision came last week, the news had already been discounted, and it caused little stir in the business world. The only flurry was in Wall Street, where small investors bought heavily. At week's end the Dow Jones industrial average broke through all previous records to a new alltime high...
Korn argued that Eisenhower's decision to run for a second term will stir up interest in the college for Ike's campaign. Stevenson has wider appeal with University students, however, Korn admitted, "because he surrounds himself with an intellectual...
Astronomers at the University of Pennsylvania have another and less direct method for observing winds at high altitude. The twinkling of stars, which so annoys astronomers, is due to turbulence in the atmosphere. Therefore, the twinkling should yield information about the currents that stir up the turbulence, even when they cannot be measured directly in any other...