Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could you stir us up this way with the provocative information that wealthy King Saud's gift to Ike was a secret [Feb. 18]? We keep imagining a locked room somewhere in the White House, unknown even to Mamie, in which is hidden a bevy of veiled and beauteous dancing girls...
Certain to stir up some of foreign aid's purest theorists is the report's conclusion that "a higher priority should be given to those countries which have joined in the collective-security system"-meaning that such neutralist nations as India and Yugoslavia would be far down on the list. The Fairless argument: Other countries have a right "to take whatever course they believe to be in their own national interest. Our Government is obligated to do likewise, and we should marshal our resources to that...
Though the $1.500,000 worth of Paris designs brought back each year by U.S. buyers are a tiny item in the U.S.'s annual $4 billion dress sales, they stir the whole massive bulk of the industry to new life. Even as U.S. women flip through the fashion magazines, other manufacturers will be studying the photographs, devising ways of changing materials, reducing fullnesses, simplifying cuts so that they can present a copy of a design they never paid for. In three months the $300 custom-made copies will have been copied in their turn to sell...
...release Perdicaris before the message was even sent; 2) the telegram went not to the Sultan but to the U.S. consul in Tangier; 3) it was written by Secretary of State John Hay, who did not mention a cruiser; 4) T. R. used it as a dramatic device to stir up the languid Republican National Convention in Chicago. Adds Pulitzer Prizewinning Historian Samuel Flagg Bemis: "It remained for historians later to discover that Roosevelt knew when he authorized the message that the American citizenship of Perdicaris was questionable...
...different Negro church printed on the side of each of the 20 new station wagons that the M.I.A. had bought for the car pool. One day last November as King and his M.I.A. colleagues were in court fighting a losing battle against the injunction, there was a stir among the white lawyers. They had seen a news dispatch: the U.S. Supreme Court had declared bus segregation illegal in Montgomery. Cried a fervent Negro: "God Almighty has spoken from Washington...