Word: stirrings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What are those blue sparks under the engine's front truck? What whistle is this that hoots in the cab? The engineer does not stir, the tipsy fireman cannot hear above his clanking rake and the ' shattering roar of the coal car. The whistle in the cab changes its note...
...stir was made and the seething has not yet subsided. The stirrer was Colonel William Mitchell who two weeks ago denounced the "incompretency, criminal negligence and almost treasonable administration of the national defense," by high officers of the Army and the Navy (TIME, Sept. 14); and pointed his remarks by references to the Shenandoah disaster, the attempted flight to Hawaii, the MacMillan expedition...
Unbashed by the stir he had caused in Washington, Colonel Mitchell invited other airman stationed with him in Texas to spend the weekend on a wolf hunt south of San Antonio-a region where the wolves have been annoying cattlemen...
...wrote "To make a perfect salad there should be a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a wise man for salt, and a madcap to stir...
...cannot reconcile Jesus Christ and war?that is the essence of the matter. That is the challenge which today should stir the conscience of Christendom...