Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, urbane, well-tailored Iceberg Johnny Dio, 43 (real name: Dioguardi), was belatedly packed off for a three-year stretch at Sing Sing by Racket Buster Tom Dewey in 1937. The charge: extorting protection money from garment district truckers and cloak-and-suiters. Long out of stir and prospering by 1950, Dio became a smoother thug, refined his old muscle technique to set up "paper locals" (no rights, few members), shook down businessmen with threats of "labor violence" and picketing. So powerful grew "Mr. Dee" that two months ago, when U.S. attorneys attempted to hale him before...
...Negro girl. Yet after he bolted to Washington, D.C., his store rent unpaid, hundreds of inflammatory anti-Semitic pamphlets were found in the shop. And when the Supreme Court's decision on school integration was handed down, Frederick John Kasper found his cause, headed into the Southland to stir the mob. Ironically, Kasper did not get a rousing reception from most of his fellow segregationists, once they learned of his pedigree. Spat one avid white supremacist: "He's an interloper, an emotional idiot with a martyr complex and a power complex who is neurotically avid for publicity...
...This "minatory tone" was a bad mistake. "The menace of invasion was at once a tonic and a drug," writes Fleming. "It braced the islanders to exertions whose necessity seemed beyond question, and it expunged the memories of the disasters they had suffered." The British began to stir themselves...
...board's motives, Allen ruled last week: "The display of an item which cannot be freely explained and discussed is unsound educational practice." He ordered that the Commandments be banned. "If the end result of the display in the school of the Ten Commandments," said he, "is to stir up bitterness and dissension, then it is better that they not be displayed...
...began to believe that a liberal education was worth more than he had originally thought. He was only slightly disturbed upon those occasions on which he noticed that these symbolic manipulations were of absolutely no relevance to any of his most imminent dreams, and seldom if ever seemed to stir him from his invariably supine intellectual position...