Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vast geologic forces stir in the Tuscarora Deep, a submarine trench facing Japan. Last week a section of the ocean floor gave way, creating a violent tremor. Ten-foot seismic waves of water thundered toward the main home island of Honshu, raced up the funnel neck of Kii Strait, dealt sleeping villages across 60,000 square miles six shattering blows in three hours. Tokyo newspapers called it the worst disaster since the great earthquake of September 1923, which killed 143,000. Said famed Fordham Seismologist Father Joseph J. Lynch: "A ripsnorter...
Suppose you take a guy with a mellow manner and a voice of blue velvet, name of Bing Crosby, add several measures of topflight tapping by Fred Astaire, sprinkle happily with a few cups of amusement by Billy De Wolfe and Olga San Juan, stir in 32 Irving Berlin tunes of ageless vintage, and include (more or less as a seasoning afterthought) a pretty feline-eyed gal whom the boys call Joan Caulfield. The final product--"Blue Skies"--should be, and is, by cinema standards, a fine bit of musical entertainment. Its conventionally silly plot has Caulfield vacillating between Crosby...
TIME, with characteristic Jesuit duplicity, deleted from my letter [Oct. 21] that part which it knew would stir honest indignation against such bigoted fanaticism as that of Simon Elwes, who cannot forego religious discrimination even in connection with the dead; and so proposes "a world memorial for Catholic soldiers," the supreme sacrifice of non-Catholics apparently being unworthy of commemoration...
...campuses, fall 1946 was football time (see SPORT) ; it was also a time for beginnings, and words designed-if not always destined-to stir students to their jobs, today & tomorrow. Last week, Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University published the opening address to entering students by Hopkins' president and famed geographer Isaiah Bowman, State Department specialist at Versailles, Dumbarton Oaks, San Francisco. Excerpts...
Youthful, maidenly Chantal lives in a French chateau whose Second Empire shrubberies and wide, tawny avenues are described by Bernanos with vivid feeling. With her live her timid, pedantic father (who has written volumes of history but cannot stir a step without the counsel of his psychiatrist) and her psychotic grandmother (who still clutches to her bosom the keys of storage cupboards that have long ceased to exist). Of such as them, Chantal says simply: "What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline toward sadness and turn instinctively toward...