Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...custom decrees that freshmen Congressmen during their first months in office are better seen than heard. Neophyte British M.P.s, on the other hand, are expected to create something of a stir when they rise to make their maiden speech in Parliament. Last week 34-year-old Ron Ledger, newly elected Labor Member for Romford, devoted his maiden speech to a plea for more free nurseries. To give his argument force, he told the story of a certain renegade father and of a mother, pregnant and destitute, who was forced to abandon her three children to the care of an orphanage...
...Blend three dashes Benedictine, three dashes grenadine, one-third orange juice, two-thirds dry gin. Stir well in ice, strain, serve in tin cup and stay away from organ-grinders...
...without causing many cancers of the more exposed larynx. Yet the death rate from larynx cancer has not gone up in step with that from lung cancer. This question was tackled by Epidemiologist Ernest L. Wynder, of Manhattan's Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, who created a stir 17 months ago when he produced cancers consistently on the backs of mice by using tobacco tar. Said Researcher Wynder: larynx cancer has become commoner, but it has not become a commoner cause of death. Reason: earlier detection and therefore more effective surgery, possible with easy-to-get-at larynx...
...despite the camera tricks, engulfing shadows, dizzying vistas of colonnades and architectural arabesques, the film moves forward with a pulse-quickening stir and bustle. As the jealous Moor, Welles captures the falcon-look of a Kabyle from the Atlas Mountains; Michael McLiammoir plays a foul-fiend of an lago with reptilian intensity; and Suzanne Clothier as Desdemona, though not quite entrancing enough to "sing the savageness out of a bear," wins compassion as she is bewilderingly overwhelmed by her mate and fate...
Immediately on his election, Barr went quickly to work. He planned to give raises in specific places and departments where they were long overdue, hoped to stir up employee initiative by loosening the tight controls imposed by Avery, e.g., allow buyers to buy-virtually impossible under Avery. He hoped to open up a new store or two, lay plans for an employee pension plan, put an end to the traditional Avery policy of secrecy with the press. To replenish Ward's ravaged top executive echelon, down to one vice president, he began setting up a new management team...