Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Skeleton Key is likely to be of help to readers of Joyce. It is also likely to stir up plenty of controversy. James Joyce's theme and dreams are usually so elaborately interwoven that even the most prominent incidents and characters invite multiple interpretations. "Indeed," conclude the authors, "the baffling obscurity of Finnegans Wake may be due to [Joyce's] determination to muddy the track of his narrative with a thousand collateral imprints, lest we trace him to the scene of his own life secret, which he yet describes in compulsive half-revelation." Campbell and Robinson offer...
...made one of this man's books "must" reading for the British War Cabinet and for Dominion Premiers who visited London last May. British liberals, scorned and derided by this man, had risen against him. A later book by the same man had just begun to make a stir...
...Archives of Internal Medicine they told how they stir up a witches' broth containing all the essential amino acids (ammonia-containing compounds from which proteins are built), dextrose sugar, salt, gelatin, emulsified cottonseed or corn oil, water. This brew is fed in varying amounts, depending on how many calories are needed. Vitamins are given separately. Though some patients claim the stuff disagrees with them, it is actually so digestible that patients can be fed at night without waking them up. (The stomach tube stays in place day & night...
Martinez pooh-poohed. Said he of the school strikes: "No children like going to school." But the military, impressed by the civilian stir, made as if to climb on the bandwagon. Martinez, impressed in turn, granted a partial amnesty. After 44 death sentences and many quiet executions, Salvadorians were not appeased...
...Stir Up was the horse to beat, and 7-to-1 Pensive did it. Jockey Conn McCreary, a stocky-chested mite (99 lb. on a 4 ft. 8 in. frame) told how: "I held him back until we hit the stretch, then turned him loose. That's all there...