Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nonchalance the Trumanites were dismayed. The President and his aides were furious at McKinney for his error in judgment. Harry Truman could still have the nomination if he wanted it, but the defeat was a serious blow to his political prestige. Supporters of other Democratic prospects began to stir even more nervously than before...
Last week Nehru's government selected members of a "goodwill mission" to go to Red China next month, paying back the visit to India late last year of a Chinese "goodwill mission" (whose calculated effect, Nehru now evidently perceives, was to stir India's Communist Party into an impressive showing at the polls). Heading the list is Nehru's sister, Madame Pandit, recently envoy to Washington, and before that envoy to Moscow (where, though she arrived with a rosy view of the Russians, she became miffed because Stalin never received her). The Chinese Communists now regard...
Today, at 52, Beverley is soberer, but no whit less naive, than when he wrote Twenty-Five. Most of All I Could Never Be is far too simple and sorry to stir up any ruckuses; the rest of it is first-rate gossip. The only ax it has to grind is Beverley himself...
...agree with that," Jordan said. "What about the resentment you would stir up among varsity and particularly J.V. players who are not permitted to take part in spring drills...
Some claim that this will only stir up a controversy that has properly died off the news and editorial pages. But whether the story has actually disappeared or not, it has left the public with a distorted picture of the Harvard student body. And a pronouncement such as the three student groups has prepared, combined with a long list of co-sponsors and signatures, is the most effective way possible to answer this distortion...