Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tense moment at the American Legion's $1,000 bingo game in East Chicago, Ind. As the 25th and final number was called off one night last week, there was a stir of excitement at a corner table. One of the five women there gasped and screamed "Bingo!" On her orange card was the winning combination of numbers, all right. Then an attendant noticed something strange: one of the numbers on the winning card was printed slantwise. Suspicious, he asked the winner to come back next day to collect her check. Then he took the card to the printer...
Russian policy is already responsive to the new fluidity, and is hoping to channel it. Western diplomats, analyzing Malenkov's big Kremlin speech (TIME, Aug. 17), concluded that Russia has decided to concentrate its attention on France: to stir up fears of German militarism, to dangle hopes of peace in Indo-China (the only cold war front conspicuously unmentioned by Malenkov) and to break up the Western coalition by concentrating on its weakest link. To judge by his speech, the Russians have now abandoned any real hope of winning over the Germans...
...hideout in the mountains, a brave follower of the Shah's, General Fazlollah Zahedi, onetime Senator, proclaimed himself Premier. He had royal decrees from the Shah, he said, dismissing Mossadegh. As recently as a year ago, Teheran would have rung with the news; now it caused no stir...
...sturdy man wearing an unpressed suit and scuffed loafers strides determinedly across the Indiana University campus, students will nudge a newcomer and remark: "That's Dr. Kinsey." Beyond such modest attention, Kinsey has caused less stir in the college town of Bloomington (pop. 28,163) than almost anywhere else...
...Army psychiatrist thought he knew why: prisoners learn to dull their hopes, accept their lot, and live only for the day; the men of Little Switch, abruptly given freedom, were still in that mood. But this week's prisoners, knowing of the truce, have had a chance to stir memories and anticipations...