Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser commended himself to the world as a strongman of reason, more concerned to put his impoverished country on its feet than to stir trouble in the Middle East. But Nasser has increasingly resorted to the incendiary propaganda of the totalitarian dictator, has persistently used his radio Voice of the Arabs to incite the Palestinian refugees in Jordan, who brood in bitter idleness over their lost lands across the border in Israel...
...step down from the dream fuels are the boron-containing fuels that have already grown big enough to stir up flurries on Wall Street (see BUSINESS). Boron itself gives much energy, and some of its compounds hold a lot of high-energy hydrogen in easy-to-handle form. Modern boron fuels are stable, reliable and have high (classified) specific impulses. One of them is now being manufactured in considerable quantity by Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. at Niagara Falls. Gallery Chemical Co., near Pittsburgh, is making its HiCal, a boron-carbon-hydrogen combination...
Into Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel last week crowded 2,000 delegates to the third annual meeting of the Association of the U.S. Army, a private organization made up of Army and ex-Army men and a loud-speaking outlet for top-level Army propaganda. On hand to stir them on were the Army's senior commanders, striving both by indirection and by extraordinarily blunt talk to overturn Defense Department policy and win for the Army a major place in the missile world. Displayed around the hotel ballroom were Army missiles and parts of missiles; at the entrance...
...reach the moon. By the same reasoning, the launching rockets of the second Soviet satellite could put 112 Ibs. on the moon. This is enough weight allowance for a powerful atom bomb, which would make brilliant fireworks if it exploded on the darkened face of the moon, and might stir up a conspicuous storm in the dust that covers its surface...
...unbelievably clumsy attempt to stir internal dissension, Nikita Khrushchev dispatched "personal" letters to the Socialist Parties of seven Western European nations. "Any widening of the conflict around Syria may drive Britain into the abyss of a new, destructive war, with all is terrible consequences for the population of the British Isles," Khrushchev wrote to Britain's Labor Party. "We hope that plans of organizing military intervention against peaceful Syria . . . will be condemned by the Labor Party." With the sole exception of Italy's fellow-traveling Pietro Nenni, Western Europe's Socialists rebuffed Khrushchev's overtures with...