Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loving Britons will stir less sugar into their afternoon pick-me-up as a result of a half-cent-a-pound increased tariff on sugar...
...hold elections, introduce civilians to his Cabinet. But the next year press censorship was made more rigorous, extremist agitation was outlawed. In November groups of more than three were forbidden to congregate on the streets of La Paz (pop. 142,547). When dormant political parties recently began to stir restlessly, President Busch enlarged the Senate from 16 to 24 members, called elections to be held...
...week half-a-dozen Senators, including two members of the potent Foreign Relations Committee, Georgia's Walter George and Kansas' Arthur Capper, plumped for the resolution. Washington's wonder grew. Best guess was that isolationists had hit on a new scheme to keep out of war: stir up bad feeling over the War debts, which nobody could do better than William Griffin...
...last three months we have heard little of the New Deal, but every member of the Government, whether it lies in his province or not, is ballyhooing the foreign situation, trying to stir up prejudice against this country or that, and at all costs take the minds of the people off their troubles at home. One thing is perfectly clear-no denouncing of dictators or eulogies of democracies can improve the condition of the people of this country by one penny of income...
...Cheat An Honest Man," a flat script gives Charlie McCarthy's petrified personality very little chance to stir the audience from its boredom...