Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because the British public feels that the interned Fascists have an easy time away from air raids, with plenty of food, bathing beaches and cinemas, there was a stir of protest in London. The British Communist Party used the incident to claim that the Fascists rioted because they have friends in the Government, pointed a finger at War Secretary Captain David Margesson and Minister for Aircraft Production John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon...
...creed is: that the U.S. needs good offshore patrol and needs it badly. As evidence he presented the 1918 raids by U-boats on commerce in U.S. waters, a piece he knew by heart. That summer six U-boats left Kiel to see what kind of trouble they could stir up on the U.S. Atlantic coast...
...horses smelled the smoke of the world afire. They marched, to the rouse and stir of quickstep-music, with their fresh-faced sons, their pretty, milk-fed daughters, high-kneeing drum majorettes in boots and shorts and shakos. In Army camps all over the country were other thousands of their draft-age sons, marched and maneuvered with a deadlier purpose...
...ought not to withhold cotton surpluses, or any stir pluses at times like these. The housewife ought not to be made to pay a tribute . . . when she buys a cotton sheet for her home or a shirt for her husband. . . . This has been historically a land of milk and honey, but too much of it is in the warehouses. Let's make it flow...
Last week, to the great, grim tragedy of France was added the Nazi Terror. With superb irony, its setting was Paris' shoddy, working-class XIe Arrondissement (eleventh ward), once the cradle, now the abattoir of French Republicanism. France was stirring against the Germans and the Germans had no intention of letting the stir progress to an upheaval...