Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...books caused a bigger stir than the Dictionary. But as the years passed and other dictionaries came out, the great book became overshadowed by the man. How good a dictionary was it? This week, on the sooth anniversary of its publication, Johnsonians could find the answers in two new studies: Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, by James H. Sledd and Gwin J. Kolb of the University of Chicago (University of Chicago Press; $5), and Young Sam Johnson, by James L. Clifford, professor of English at Columbia University (McGraw-Hill...
...Supreme Court will have considerable difficulty enforcing its decision against Jim Crow schools. Of 1,000 Texans sampled, 45% said they favored maintaining segregation either by disobeying the law or finding a way to circumvent it. In other words, said the poll, any attempt at immediate integration will "stir up a storm of protest in Texas verging on public disrespect...
...Maxwell in Chicago. He telephoned New York Times Managing Editor Catledge, tried to make a deal: he would split the costs of preparing the texts if the Times would cut in the Trib. When Catledge refused. Maxwell went after the text himself. He told his Washington bureau to stir up Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen. who, in turn, asked Republican Minority Leader William Knowland to protest about the State Department's "plan to 'leak' the text to one favored Eastern newspaper...
Died. Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Tribhubana Bir Bikram Jung Bahadur Shah Bahadur Shum Shere Jung Deva, 49, King of Nepal, whose proposed (but never accomplished) visit to the U.S. last November caused a stir because he planned to bring both of his queens; of a coronary occlusion, in Zurich...
...created on earth and put to some use. Bukharin even offered to turn over the Leningrad electrical works to Gamow for a few hours every night for experimentation. Gamow replied that no practical application was possible. But the incident stuck in his mind, and he was later to stir the interest of U.S. scientists in thermonuclear reactions like those inside the stars. (If the Communists ever decide to canonize Bukharin, whom they executed in 1938, they may claim him as the grandfather of the H-bomb...