Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Morty himself who is doing this, tongue in cheek, to stir up controversial interest? . . . Why blaspheme God, by attributing to Him man's hideous "image...
...regular TIME-readers this view of Iran's importance was no surprise. Back in 1929 when trouble in nearby Afghanistan created a stir in the U.S., the editors pointed out that little-noticed Iran was far more vital to the West. The spur-jangling Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran (father of the present Shah of Shahs) was the subject of three TIME cover stories between 1934 and 1941, was described as "emancipator of his country from British domination." In conditions remarkably similar to those of today, a 1941 story centered around a map titled "Iran-New Focus in Middle...
...take the whole responsibility for the firing. He exonerated his Secretary of State from Republican charges that Acheson was the real man. It was Acheson who had at first opposed firing MacArthur. What were Acheson's reasons? Political-purely, said Truman with a grin. Acheson said it would stir up a fuss, said the President, and he was right...
Take one distant century-say the 16th-and take it seriously. Add one princely husband, admiring and dull; one bride, beautiful and devout; one young lover, handsome and ardent. Stir the ingredients in a batter of love-at-first-sight and courtly ceremony; cook over a slow fire of virtue, grief and remorse; then sprinkle with fragments of broken hearts. This basic recipe for romance or rubbish is served up cold in Madame de Lafayette's Princess of Cleves...
...behind trucks or "truck-tractors") on the road than any other trailer-maker, he has a public-relations job to perform. The trailers' size (biggest is 32 ft. 3⅜ in. long, carries 25,000 Ibs.) plus the bad road manners of many of their drivers have helped stir up anti-trucking sentiment around the U.S., and given Fruehauf one of its biggest headaches. But though motorists fume, truckers think that trailers are just about the greatest invention since the gasoline engine...