Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps because the public remembered his own past willingness to run, perhaps for other reasons, the MacArthur thrust failed to create any great stir. Among the great man's well-deserved laurels nestled a bunch of slightly sour grapes...
This week, political observers the world over would be watching the elections in Rome, Naples and some 2,400 municipalities in southern Italy, to see how well the Reds fare. But the conflicts and labels that agitate the rest of the world did not stir towns like Eboli and Anticoli...
...mayor, who goes to church regularly, made a big stir one Sunday by getting to his feet as the priest was reading a pastoral letter to the congregation, and crying out: "Enough! Get on with the Mass. We are getting cold." That made him unpopular; besides, the Communists did not build the aqueduct they promised. Chances are, Anticolani will vote Demo-Christian-but not because they support the Atlantic pact or concern themselves with the East-West struggle. A reporter who talked to Anticolani last week found only one who had heard of the pact...
...each and every individual a dossier." With cold brutality, the Nazis proceed to murder the Kharkov Communists, not bothering to distinguish between active satraps of Stalin and mere party hand-raisers. But in the bowels of the city, the Russian secret police rebuilds its organization; in the forests, guerrillas stir, and from the east comes the Russian counterattack. By the end of the story the Russians are back in Kharkov, exterminating their countrymen who wavered during the Nazi occupation...
Then he unrolled a new argument, calculated to win him desperately needed support at home but bound to stir up abroad all the old misgivings about dealing with Germans: the allied contract with West Germany, he said, might just as well be put into effect, for if Germany is reunified, the new Germany will not be bound by the contract. "The general agreement," he said, "provides for reconsideration of all treaties in case of reunification of Germany...