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Word: stirs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brog's 30-man factory in Thayne, Wyo., the work is exacting, and much of it is done by hand. As each vat of milk coagulates, trained men stir the curds with harplike tools and with a special rhythmic motion that is said to contribute to the cheese's flavor. At precisely the right moment, the cheese is pressed into 200-lb. wheels about ten inches thick and 30 inches in diameter. The wheels are placed on racks for six months of curing and aging, are rotated, washed and salted at proper intervals during this period. Not till...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: Little Switzerland Grows Up | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...last summer North Dighton began to stir restlessly. The company, hard hit by the textile slump, abolished its bonus plan and revised vacation pay schedules to cut costs. Workers began to grumble and sign up with the C.I.O. Textile Workers Union. When Milliken fired 191 employees, the plant struck, and the strikers fought with those who refused to walk out. During the 54 days of trouble, fearful company executives and other townspeople took out pistol permits. In one attempt to bring peace, President Milliken called the strikers to the front lawn of his ten-acre estate, urged them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXTILES: Southward Ho! | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

Although college elections always create a great stir on campus, Brown is politically dead as far as the outside world is concerned. There are local Young Republicans, Students for Democratic Action, and World Federalists, but these are all relatively inactive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Limits Liquor, Love, Frats | 11/17/1951 | See Source »

These are at least three ways to stir up interest: first, by arguing different topics of current interest, second, by using some sort of cross-questioning technique which allows for more mental contact; and third, by making the audience the judge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unseen Spectacles | 11/14/1951 | See Source »

...Communist Tudeh (masses) Party was busy. In recent months, droves of Russian agents have been sneaking across Iran's all but unguarded northeastern border. Their mission: to stir up riots and mastermind the revolution when Iran is judged ripe to be taken over. Of the same stock and tongue as northern Iranians, the agents from Russian Turkistan are well-trained and well-heeled. The agents steer clear of the big Russian embassy on Churchill Avenue, and get their orders from the Rumanian legation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Worse than Mossadegh | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

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