Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four years ago, Finance Minister Ezio Vanoni created a stir by requiring all Italians to make out annual tax returns. Roberto Tremelloni, Finance Minister in the Scelba government, went even further. Tremelloni introduced a bill which would for the first time 1) require an oath in making out. returns, and 2) exact penalties for defrauding the government. His bill got nowhere. Not only was it resisted by Neo-Fascists and Monarchists, but it was repellent to the big-money backers of the ruling Christian Democrats. The bill languished in committee until one day last month, when Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni...
...suede, the whole incongruously teamed with pigskin gloves, a pearl necklace. Polled for their views, the fashion experts, all insisting on anonymity, gasped politely at Margaret's rebellion. Said one: "A strange blend." Another: "It's daring ..." A third: "Extraordinary, to say the least ..." Oblivious to the stir she was making, Margaret was aces at the races, picked two winners...
...excuse for its aggression was that it was in retaliation for sporadic Syrian firing at Israeli fishermen in the Sea of Galilee. This was plainly only part of the story: not a single Israeli fisherman has been killed for a year; incidents on the Sea of Galilee make little stir even in the Israeli press. A likelier explanation was an attempt to convince the Syrians that their new military pact with Egypt might be more of a liability than an asset; and additionally to scare neighboring Lebanon out of joining the pact...
...stir up such mobs is to identify the Baghdad pact with the West, to identify the West with Israel, and then to stir up hatred of Israel...
...hauls the suckers in. But Frankie is a man who carries "a 40-lb. monkey on [his] back," and the only way to knock the monkey off is to get a shot of joy in the main vein. He kicks the habit when he does a stretch in stir, and swears off cards, too, when he comes out; he has learned the drums in prison, and he has a chance to try out with a commercial band. But Schwiefka (Robert Strauss) is not letting go, and neither is Frankie's wife (Eleanor Parker), a demented leech who is systematically...