Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suffice it to say that the Jeffs, after having been tagged by the experts as being in the throes of a building period this year, are much buoyed up by their opening success and are anxious to stir up some trouble this week, and probably will do that--though to how great an extent they will be capable of doing so is still a major question...
...political organization they understood. Politicians who have learned their trade from the bottom up know that elections are won in the wards and precincts, that sweating ward heelers have to get out the voters, that district leaders have to get the ward heelers to work, and somebody has to stir up the district leaders to go about...
General Holcomb's left-handed crack at the Army's small-arms pet did not stir up again the controversy of last spring (TIME, May 6) in which the authoritative National Rifle Association panned the Garand as an inaccurate shooting piece, given to overheating, hard to maintain. But his mild remarks disclosed that the Marine Corps was doing some rifle shopping on its own account, had already given a preliminary look at a new semi-automatic put out by Winchester Repeating Arms Co. (which is now making Garands under Government contract). This week the new Winchester was ready...
...interesting, as an unusual conjunction of planets. On the third and fifth pages of their Pravda or Izvestia, Muscovites who cared could read of the battle's progress, in dry little paragraphs like items of scientific rather than popular interest. Bigger news which those papers evidently expected to stir the proletariat were developments in the East, especially in the five central Asiatic republics. In this remote corner of Asia, where the U. S. S. R. borders on Afghanistan, on India and on China, the Soviet Government has zealously invested men & money, on the theory that Russia's Asiatic...
...meeting gave Georgians a chance for chatting as well as churchgoing. Camp ers downed prodigious meals of fried chicken, country ham, barbecued beef, Brunswick stew, stuffed eggs, potato salad, corn on the cob, pie, watermelon, iced tea, lemonade, Coca-Cola. Even after such meals, old Dr. Bascom Anthony could stir his congregation...