Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incidents caused little if any stir across the nation. History in the making, like the wind of a distant storm, at first barely ruffled the leaves of the nation's newspapers...
...Dick Haymes and proceeded to develop that peculiar mixture of maudlin sentiment and half-hearted satire that passes for musical comedy on the screen. The result, which was supposed to send Bostonians hustling to their desks to write indignant letters to the local papers, is scarcely strong enough to stir up the lunatic fringe of New England nationalism...
...suddenly yielded, loosing the earthquake's force. He thought it lay somewhere off the east coast of Shikoku Island, where the sea is 10,000 feet deep. Careful soundings might eventually show that the sea bottom had moved a few yards. This would have been enough to stir up monstrous waves...
Said Lawyer Lamb: "It is unwise to specify these fabulous and reckless sums. They . . . may stir Congress to adopt restrictive legislation...
...Verdict (Warner), set in late 19th Century London, commits a leisurely murder in a locked room but fails to stir up much interest in whodunit. Either Sidney Greenstreet or Peter Lorre, both obviously untrustworthy characters full of guilty knowledge, lurks suspiciously in every shadow...