Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter created the stir that Nehru intended, and its purpose quickly showed through. Nehru was using the threat of resignation to beat down the moderates and right-wingers inside his Cabinet and fix India on a leftward course: more socialism at home, more flirting with Communism abroad. "Gandhi often renounced active membership in the Congress Party when he had difficulties," recalled the Free Press Journal of Bombay. "[Nehru] has been unable to conceal his impatience with India's slow progress toward the Socialist State," reported Calcutta's influential Amrita Bazar Patrika...
...surprising, considering the Arboretum's prestige and its almost fanatically loyal following, that any effort to change the institution would stir up trouble. At first, however, there was none. In 1945, at Provost Buck's request, Irving W. Bailey, Professor of Plant Anatomy, produced a report on Botany and its Applications at Harvard reviewing the University's sprawling resources in the field. At that time work was split up between nine institutions, one as distant as Cuba and all going their separate ways. Harvard, as Professor Bailey put it, "has acquired too many nests to brood over, and certain...
...confuse the voters and keep registration down. Roared Irving Ives: "These Tammany-picked candidates, to hide their ignorance of state affairs, have fallen back on the last resource of sordid politics . . . This year they are so desperate and contemptible that they have sunk to the level of trying to stir up people to hate other people because we are respecting the holiest days of the religion of many of our people...
Horrible Example. While Martin was trying to smooth things out, Dick Nixon was trying to stir things up. He was confronted by a distressing situation in Ohio's Taftland, where the G.O.P.'s gusty Senate Candidate George Bender probably has a slight edge over Cleveland Democrat Tom Burke, but is running a poor second in public interest to the Cleveland Indians. So far Bender has failed to whistle up even a mild breeze of enthusiasm. In Republican state headquarters, where some 60 paid employees bustled about two years ago, a bare 20 were on duty last week. Only...
Since India gained freedom in 1947, Nehru has repeatedly demanded an end to all colonial enclaves in the subcontinent. When his huffing, puffing and pleading did not blow the colonial walls down, armed Indian nationalists (often Communist-led) began to stir up revolts in the enclaves, and Nehru gave their activity the kind of silence that implies approval. France let three of its tiny colonies go (Chandernagor, Mahe and Yanaon), and last week the French Foreign Office let it be known that the last two, Pondicherry and Karikal, would be ceded to India within "the next few weeks." These small...