Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Grau next day at a press conference: The plot was hatched by "capitalists who had business deals with the Batista regime." Large sums were spent on a press campaign to stir up trouble. Plans included his own assassination and that of his Chief of Staff. "I have no sure proof," said Grau, "of [Batista's] participation, but neither have I proof that he is not involved...
...stir up the Bennettsky Cerfskys...
...office, never to the public, do they call themselves the "greatest seconds in the business." But True Confessions began three years after Macfadden's phenomenal True Story ; Modern Mechanics, started in 1928, changed its name to Mechanic Illustrated because Popular Mechanics objected. When Ballyhoo created a big, brief stir in 1931, the Fawcetts came up with Hooey. When LIFE scored, the Fawcetts brought out a picture magazine called Spot. Their No. 1 comic hero is wonder working, high-flying Captain Marvel, and he is currently court-bound as too close an imitation of Superman...
...entertainer who is creating such a multilingual stir, Sergeant Desmond is modesty itself. When he sang for the 101st Airborne Division, his appreciative audience presented him with a complete paratrooper's outfit and honorary membership in the division. Johnny is especially pleased about the G.I. reaction: "I used to be afraid the real soldiers wouldn't like me," he says, "but they don't seem to mind me being a swooner." The band's publicity-minded program director, Warrant Officer Paul Dudley, says with boding triumph: "Sinatra is apt to push; The Creamer just bides...
...many voices, which were drowned in the next wave of bombs, more fearful than the first. 'For heaven's sake, stop it!' a woman screamed somewhere in the darkness. 'Shut up with that,' broke in a rough man's voice. A stir ran through the tightly packed people...