Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Braden's outside interests landed him in jail. In a Louisville criminal court, he was sentenced under Kentucky's sedition law to 15 years in prison and fined $5,000 for "advocating sedition." The case resulted from what the state prosecutor called a "Communist-inspired plot to stir up racial trouble between whites and Negroes...
Attempts to stir this spirit are particularly evident in the intramural athletic program. As one faculty member said, "The Dudley boys may not play polo, but just watch them in the ring." Besides boxing, Dudley is annually at the top, or near there, in hockey and table tennis. Dudley's athletic secretary likes to describe house spirit in terms of the football team's "fight"--against one of Yale's best house teams the Center lost by only one touchdown. A veteran observer at the IAB holds a slightly different interpretation. "It seems to me that on defensive goal line...
...both provinces, the opposition Socialists had tried to stir up resentment against German rearmament, but got nowhere with the issue. The No. 2 party in Adenauer's coalition, the right-wing Free Democrats, likewise tried to stir up nationalist sentiments by calling Adenauer's Saar concessions a betrayal. They got nowhere either, and their chastened leader, Thomas Dehler (TIME, Dec. 6), hastened to reassure newsmen that he and the Chancellor had no differences...
...score was tied 7-7 at half time. In the second half the Buckeye fans started singing the Ohio State song, which is Momma Loves Poppa. This haunting old college song sure did stir up those Ohio State players. Right away you could see them stiffen their backs and begin to bow their necks. I guess those State players got to .thinking that they didn't want to be hearing all winter how the Little Women had missed a trip to Los Angeles just because they weren't men enough to beat us Wolverines...
...Hoax Takes in All the School," said the Daily Sketch. "Even Hoaxes the Head," added the News Chronicle. Why had Christopher done it? "Things had been so frightfully dull around here," said the boy who used to be called Bumblie. "I just felt I had to stir something...