Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feel like a kid." In Illinois, U.S. Senator Paul Douglas was roaming the countryside being folksy with farmers, militant with miners, professorial with college groups and hearty with luncheon clubs. All across the U.S., the politicians, like bees in a hive warmed by the spring sun, were beginning to stir and buzz. The reason: the congressional election battle of 1954 had begun...
Very soon, Congressmen will be voting on the statehood issue. Through your newspaper we may stir enough interest in the people to write to their Congressmen, tolling them that they are definitely in favor of Hawaiian statehood. . . . Clinton Ching '56, President Hawaii Club of New England
Angered by Spain's behavior and afraid that it might stir up more trouble in Morocco, the French sent an aircraft carrier, two cruisers and a flotilla of destroyers into the vicinity, protested to Spain, and asked the U.S. to please ask Franco to call off his Moroccans. The U.S., with millions invested in French Moroccan air-bases and ready to spend $200 million more on bases in Spain, kept aloof...
...Methodism, which has had far more of an influence on British socialist policies than Marxism ever had, is hard put to stir up the old fervor in these days of the welfare state. Methodism's great 19th century battles on behalf of the over worked, the overcrowded and the under paid in the lusty turmoil of the Indus trial Revolution have now been won in the sooty cities of the Midlands, on the docksides of the Tyne and in the slag-heaped valleys of Wales. And Methodist zeal for social betterment is left with such low-calorie crusades...
...Crimson came out victorious in the K. of C. meet, Jan. 16, as it sprinted home in the near record time of 3:21.6. Dave Alpers' anchor leg, in which he overtook Princeton's Dick Yaffa, has caused quite a stir among local fans, and Coach Bill McCurdy in particular. Alpers was timed by McCurdy at :49.6, but the officials credited him with a :48.9, excellent time for an indoor...