Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still trying to follow the line, Anna snapped: "My expulsion may have been caused by the tension and war. hysteria which the American press has done so much to stir up." Tired and testy, she finally shut off discussion: "Nobody in Russia has mistreated me the way you reporters have tonight." But next day, after the special Grand Jury (which is investigating espionage in the U.S.) let her off after only 30 minutes of preliminary questioning, Anna warmed up a little. To reporters, she elaborated...
Declaring that "the future of the Christian cause depends on the mobilization of laymen," the committee decided on a secretariat to stir up the laity. Germany's Pastor Martin Niemöller would travel to Australia in the fall; Dr. Marc Boegner, president of the French Protestant Federation, would bring the gospel to South America; Norway's Bishop Berggrav would go to East Asia...
...slow brain, and you can have a nice stew of social and psychological problems. Set the uplift-minded Armorel and the hairy-chested Toughie to living in one of the meanest streets of one of London's slums, and the stew is likely to become too thick to stir...
...Eastern Toilers' Institute. In 1931, he was made commander in chief of the Chinese Red army, while Mao became political commissar. Chinese peasant legends, gleefully fostered by Communists, attribute superhuman powers to Chu-he could fly, he could see 100 li (33 miles) in all directions; he could stir dustclouds or winds against an enemy...
Robert L. Moore, Jr. '49, newly-appointed Harvard representative on the College Opera Council, announced last night a drive to stir up University interest in opera...