Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name have a suspiciously foreign ring (actually he was born in New Hampshire), but the very fact that L'Heureux is a member of the State Department could have been enough to earn him the chill on the hill. Added to that, his job is one calculated to stir the suspicion of every politico who keeps an eye on the grand old flag-as chief of the visa division, he has been responsible for the delicate and controversial business of admitting foreigners...
...began the "fight for peace." The Cominform called it "the pivot of the entire activity of the Communist Parties." The cry of peace could oppose the keeping of U.S. troops in Europe; it could stir up workers by blaming low wages and high prices on rearmament programs; it could prey on mothers whose sons must fight, on men of God who hated war, on the indifferent and the despairing, on the timid who feared that arming for self-defense was provocative...
...stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening...
...last week, but this time it was no innocent visit to gobble free food, gape at well-stocked department stores, see the exhibits, color television, radio shows and movies the Western allies had set up for their Communist callers. This time 14,000 crossed the border on business: to stir up hatred against the West...
...stunt made a fine headline in the determinedly liberal Capital Times. But that was not the end of it. A fortnight ago in Detroit, President Harry Truman stretched the Madison incident to make his own point: "The doubters and defeatists . . . are trying to stir up trouble and suspicion between the people and their Government," he said. "This malicious propaganda has gone so far that on the Fourth of July . . . people were afraid to say they believed in the Declaration of Independence...