Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seriously alarmed during the early negotiations, Argentina fought back in several ways. Her propagandists tried to stir up memories of the bloody Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, and spread the indignant story that the treaty contained a secret military clause which glanced in her direction...
...youngster . . . doesn't know what he is saying . . . [but] knows it creates a stir. . . . If the adult is shocked and sharply forbids . . . the child will use the phrase over and over . . . the teacher [should] let the obnoxious expression go the first few times. . . . Often . . . it will wear itself out. . . . If you correct a child and he answers, 'My father says that' . . . you must . . . [avoid] discrediting his home. . . . It must be pointed out. . . that, although those words may be used at home, [they] cannot be . . . at school...
...commonly used by plain people, selected from the 40,000-odd available characters. It can be learned in 96 hours from four little books. Chinese coolies and peasants (85% of the population) now need only bestir themselves a bit to become literate. Jimmy Yen sees to it that they stir increasingly...
...Indians of Peru are deeply uninterested in quite a lot of things. Some of the things that fail to stir their interest: hospital care, cleanliness, antivenereal treatments, vaccination, privies. Nor were they much impressed, at first, by Dr. David Glusker, nor by the fact that Dr. Glusker had been an instructor in Medicine at Cornell Medical School before he joined the Army last February. (Nelson Rockefeller's Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs had discovered that Dr. Glusker knew a lot about tropical medicine and Spanish and whisked him off to the Tingo Maria district of Peru...
Mindful of all the war contracts Hud son still holds, President A. Edward Barit only commented: "These are war times and we are dealing with the Government. This is no time to stir up a controversy." But many a Detroit industrialist, jittery over the Navy's precipitate action, pressed Washington for a complete explanation. At week's end, Truman Committeeman Homer Ferguson of Michigan was probing the mystery...