Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Adlai Stevenson had failed to get done (TIME, July 13). And in Massachusetts, Christian Archibald Herter, 58, a lean, blond giant (6 ft. 4½ in.) with the searching eyes of an intellectual, the manners of a patrician and the pithy record of a politician, was causing a stir that rippled far beyond the shores of Massachusetts Bay. For Herter, Tom Dewey had a succinct appraisal: "He's the cream of the bottle...
...church must accept some responsibility. "I know there must be deep flaws somewhere in the man . . ." he admits. "Yet I cannot help believing that if the church had only been a little more willing to grant him a hearing and opportunity in the days when he was trying to stir it to new outlooks, such a waste of ability and promise would never have happened...
...good chance of passage. On the other hand, crafty Pat McCarran could still do a lot of road-blocking if he chose, and the Senate was already in a squeeze to get through before the scheduled end-of-the-month adjournment. To show that they planned to stir up a big storm, McCarran and his two chief Republican allies, Indiana's Jenner and Idaho's Welker, had dropped 70 amendments to the refugee bill into Senate hoppers...
...alone the de-emphasis of Margaret (which caught U.S. headline writers) but the new emphasis on Philip created a stir in Britain. Lord Beaverbrook's Tory Daily Express and the Liberal Manchester Guardian, which find few issues to agree upon, both agreed that the regency should be kept "in the line of succession" rather than pass to one who is not in the line, i.e., Princess Margaret should have the regency. There was also a deep undertow of nervousness and grumbling in the starchy back benches of the Tory Party, whose men are properly silent in public and often...
...about gone and world markets shrinking, the Soviet Union's East-West trade proposals make businessmen's mouths water. Moreover, since tariffs limit their U.S. markets, and U.S. law (the Battle Act) prohibits MSA beneficiaries from selling "strategic" goods to the Communist bloc, the Soviet proposals also stir the growing anti-American feeling in Europe...