Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warm Italian sun and scene stir up fresh trouble. Karen promptly finds a lean, bronzed soldier-adventurer type who has modeled himself on T. E. Lawrence. They run off together, but Karen soon cloys his palate. Long-suffering Max takes her back again...
...Ralph Bunche and N.A.A.C.P. Secretary Walter White, the son of an Atlanta mailman, hammered away at the convention's main theme: End Segregation Now! They had met in Atlanta to dramatize their fight against segregation, but, unlike Communist groups, did not defy it in practice just to stir up trouble. Only French Singer Josephine Baker tried to get into one of the city's first-class hotels, and being refused, stayed away from the convention. Most delegates stayed at private homes or in dormitories at Atlanta (Negro) University...
...Then the dry mix. Flour: two parts white, one part whole wheat. Add baking powder, two tablespoons. Add salt to taste -if the party had a drink the night before, add a little bit more salt so they can taste the pancake. Put it through the sifter together. Then stir until the batter is smooth...
...stir up Congress, Harry Truman decided to stir up the homefolks. Earnestly facing a battery of microphones and television cameras one night last week, he accused an old enemy, the National Association of Manufacturers, and unidentified "beef lobbyists" of trying to scuttle wage-price controls. Unless the people banded together to defeat these "special interests," he warned, prices would go "through the roof," the nation's economy would be wrecked and Russia would "win the world to totalitarianism without firing a shot...
Then he waited for the avalanche of telegrams which usually follows such a speech, hoping-that they would stir Congress to action. By week's end the telegrams began trickling in. Congress would take some stirring. The banking committees of both houses had held six weeks of hearings, heard more than a hundred witnesses, and had barely gotten down to writing a bill. They showed little sympathy for the President's request for authority to stiffen rent controls and to tighten credit. Likeliest action: a last-minute 30-to-60-day extension of the present...