Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week Joe Axelrod's personnel department at the headquarters of his textile empire in Woonsocket, Rhode Island was still sorting and classifying the mail as it came in, and he was answering it as fast as he could. Said he: "Holy cats! I never dreamed a story could stir up such a response. One day you're quietly doing business in the same old way; the next you're a national figure with mail and telegrams pouring in from all over the hemisphere...
...Jerusalem, the advance party of the Palestine Commission were prisoners of hate. They dared not stir out of the British security zone, encircled with barbed wire and gun emplacements, except in bulletproof cars. No Arab leader would speak to them; Jews had to talk to them mostly over the telephone...
...battles had ended in defeats: by the French in Syria, by the British in Palestine, and in Iraq (where he fought with Nazi help) during World War II. A British plane strafed, and almost killed him, in Iraq. He went to Germany to recuperate. There he helped stir up the Arab world against the British, married a German girl (his third wife), was held by the conquering Russians until February...
...Such romantic dialogue as: "Listen, darling, they're playing our song"; "Violets ! Oh darling, you remembered"; "Oh, Keith, darling, look! The stars are so close you could reach out and stir them around"; "Oooh! The bubbles tickle my nose...
Gollancz' most fiery bolts are directed against British and, by indirection, U.S. policy in Germany. To treat the Germans like a conquered people, says Gollancz, is to perpetuate the hatreds that can only lead to another war. "If we treat the Germans kindly, kindness will stir in them. If we show them mercy, they will know, by the immediacy of contact, how 'delightful' mercy is. ... A society cannot be brought into being by doing just the things which it is the very purpose of the intended society to abolish forever...