Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which would much prefer not to know what Peking and Communist North Viet Nam are up to in Laos. The chairman of the U.N. party, Japan's Shinichi Shibusawa, promised that the subcommittee would "go wherever it had to"-thus quashing earlier reports that the investigators would not stir out of Vientiane into the mysterious northern jungles where the Communist attacks are concentrated. And a Laotian government spokesman proudly announced the capture of six or seven enemy soldiers alleged to be North Vietnamese regulars. But, under questioning, Laotian officials conceded that at least some of the prisoners were Vietnamese...
...recognition he never aspired to, when he went down into London's underground as a war artist to do a series of air-raid "shelter drawings." These, unique in their shrouded, sallow-hued style, conveyed with Dantean impact the spectacle of humanity huddled in refuge, yet fated to stir again, to live and to work on. Londoners, who would have blanched at the sight of his statues, recognized themselves in his swaddled figures, and hailed him as one of their...
While the King and queen besought their faithful subjects to remain calm, Cambodian security police began an investigation, soon announced that the card from the U.S. firm was fraudulent and a "crude attempt" to stir up anti-American sentiment. Who was guilty of the outrage? Observers pointed out that neutralist Cambodia's relations with its pro-Western neighbors, South Viet Nam and Thailand, were on the mend after several years of tension (TIME, March 16). Only one group stood to gain from chaos in Cambodia: the Communists...
...author's first book of short stories announce much besides one more young lady who had a sheltered adolescence or one more young gentleman who did not. An exception was William Saroyan's The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, which created such a stir in the '30s. Lover Man, by Alston Anderson, 35, may not come up to Saroyan's Daring Voting Man, but at least it occupies the same ballpark. With this series Anderson introduces himself not only as a first-class writer, but also as an observer who aims to talk only...
Even in ordering Namboodiripad out of office, Nehru characteristically sent him assurances of "warm personal regards." Nehru's daughter Indira had no such attitude. What about the Communist threat to stir up trouble all over India? Snapped Indira: "When have the Communists not created trouble...