Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...healthy, simple, kindly, straightforward, with a pleasant sense of humor, the average level of Congressional intelligence-which is higher than U.S. voters often think. His defects are lacks: he is obviously not a man whose nobility of purpose, splendid idealism or farsighted vision of the American destiny has ever stirred or could ever stir the country. He is not known as the sponsor of any legislation of importance, let alone of any profound or seriously progressive measures; he has never notably participated in debate on taxes or economic measures. He is a small-town politician who has learned to conduct...
...squatter community, called Poor Boy, and follows the dreamy, hard-drinking career of a onetime highly-paid war worker, called Spence Douthit, who amiably man ages to resist every attempted reform -including his own delinquent daughter's. Caldwell's characters, as usual, outrage every decent instinct and stir every other kind...
...other acts of mob violence. Barefoot carabinieri flunkied for Allied officers. Once they had been traditional symbols of legality and order. Now they were simple absurdities. But the mobs had not coalesced into a movement. Most Italians were too preoccupied with keeping alive, or too weak from hunger to stir...
...roommate caused the stir of the evening when he showed up with five (not two or three like any sane polygamist--but five) young ladies. He danced with each one in her rightful turn. We later interviewed the young ladies and asked what's the story...
From 176,000 entries the Imperial Rule Assistance Association chose as a slogan to stir Japanese fighting forces now in their eighth year of war: Iki, Waki, Konki, Sookekki (spirit, harmony, stamina, total action...