Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They will have a hard time at Washington where officials have already expressed themselves as displeased at the Franco-British agreement. M. Caillaux last week asked the French press to be mild in its comments?not to stir up ill feeling that will hinder the mission's work at Washington...
...Glittering phrases are used to stir the colored men, one of them being: 'Negroes did not come into the world with saddles on their backs nor the whites with spurs on their heels...
...years I have been aware of the subtle, un-Christian influence of this song, The Star-Spangled Banner, and of the very evident use which is made of it to stir up sentiments inimical and hurtful to every ideal which Americans cherish. The fact is, that each time a bill has been introduced in Congress, seeking to .legalize 'The Star-Spangled Banner as our national athem, Congress has refused to give its sanction...
Engaged. John Maynard Keynes, 42, famed British economist, author of A Revision of the Treaty, and The Economic Consequences of the Peace (which latter book caused a stir...
...greatest work is done by what is called "infiltration," which is used with considerable success to stir up the Moorish tribes in the rear of the French lines or actually in them: A single Riffian regular crawls in the night past the French outposts, visits villages in the rear to urge war upon the French and to promise rewards from his Chief, Abd-el-Krim. The visits are repeated nightly; and if kind words fail, threats are used, and occasionally an assassination is committed to terrorize the petty chieftains into submission. The Valley of the Wergha, along which the fighting...