Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the world last Sunday, Anglican and Episcopal priests read the collect for the Sunday next before Advent: "Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people. . . ." But few & far between were the clergy who followed the old English custom of Stir Up Sunday, taking their sermon texts from the collect's opening sentence. Fewer still were the irreverent moppets who piped the day's old ditty...
...Stir up, we beseech thee...
...daybreak, rain drummed on the windowpanes of Washington, D.C. But the city awakened with a stir of excitement, like a college town on the morning the football team comes home with the championship. Franklin Roosevelt, elected to Term IV, was coming back to the White House from Hyde Park. At 7:30 a.m. crowds were standing in the grey morning outside the Union Station. By 8:28, when the President's special train pulled in, there were 30,000 people on the wet plaza before the station, and a third of a million more along the two miles...
Nothing that Joseph Stalin said on Red Square last week made such a stir as was caused in Tokyo by his remark that Japan is "an aggressor nation." Said the official Japanese Domei agency: The Japanese people were "surprised and offended." It added: "The Soviet Nation is a realistic country, so in all probability her foreign policy vis-à-vis her neighbor is not wholly immutable. . . . Consequently, it is the firm belief of the Japanese general public that Japan must also adopt a realistic policy that will conform with any new situation created by the Russians." What Japan feared...
...182Writing for Thought, Fordham University Quarterly, Authors Frederick Haussman and Daniel Ahearn explained why cartels are causing such a stir. They estimated that 42% of the world's trade between 1929 and 1937 was controlled by cartels, then predicted: "International cartels will increase in size, number and power in the postwar period...