Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they have settled down, conspicuously unheralded, their surreptitious coming noticed, if at all, like the flight of birds at night when some stir betrays their passage. On this airfield have been glimpsed, for tantalizing moments, the sinews which move the mighty Soviet hand whose political fingers probe, by diplomacy or conspiracy, into every cranny of the world-the back alleys of Buenos Aires, the palaces of Paris, the bottle-towered temples of Burma...
Enter the Head Man. There was a stir in the back of the hall and Molotov bustled in with his brisk, bobbing swagger. His face was pink with anxiety and his tie (for once) was askew. He snapped his finger to attract the chair's attention, and Bidault wearily said: "The Soviet delegation has an observation to make." A reporter muttered: "Hold your hats, boys, here we go again...
...produced by the controlled chain reaction in a uranium pile or atomic power plant. The reaction itself generates powerful gamma rays and floods of neutrons. The uranium disintegrates, leaving a residue of highly active fission products. The neutrons, wandering through the pile, the cooling system and the concrete shield, stir up radioactivity. The pile may become "poisoned," and everything from it, or in contact with it, must be shunned like death...
Your writer created quite a stir locally with his reference to the 1911 locomotive and two wooden cars tied up here . . . by the recent rail strike [TIME, June...
...Great and serious papers are thrashing their readers with false information on Russia; they stir up every conflict, trying to convince the people that war between our two countries is possible. I want to shout: No, this war is impossible! . . . Nothing separates us but the curtain of fog drawn by the slanderers...