Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believed that 20th century man was subjected to an unprecedented bombardment of reality. "We are confronting a set events," he had written, "not only beyond our power to tranquillize them in the mind, beyond our power to reduce them and metamorphose them, but events that stir the emotions to violence, that engages us in what is direct and immediate and real, and events that involve the concepts and sanctions that are the order of our lives and may involve our very lives; and these events are occurring persistently with increasing omen, in what may be called our presence." In this...
...contours of a Navy man, mused the water-taxi pilot suspiciously, regarding one of his fares by dawn's dim light. Nevertheless, he said nothing as his passengers debarked at Buoy 25 in San Diego Bay, where the crews of three destroyers were beginning to stir. But back on the beach he confided his suspicions to the shore patrol...
Second Day. Next morning the West felt a stir of fresh hope when the Big Four's second team-the foreign ministers -quickly worked out an agenda with very little argument from Molotov. But at that afternoon's big session, Bulganin buried the last hope of achieving anything at all on Germany. A free Germany must be a Germany free of any military obligations to the West, he said flatly. He rejected Eden's proffered reassurance of a five-power security guarantee against a united Germany; such guarantees might be all very well for small, weak powers...
...army and civilian trucks were jamming the square in front of the rococo city hall, bringing load after load of Vietnamese-schoolboys, peasants, silk-robed girls, civil servants in their Sunday best. Before long there were about 100,000 people in the vast square, and the crowd began to stir with an ominous restlessness...
...best ways to stir up a Congressman is to reject or to cut the appropriations he wants. In this session of Congress no one has refused and cut more than crusty old (76) Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Last week the House cut back at Missourian Cannon...