Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report of faculty action on a new theatre is bound to raise some false expectations and stir up much speculation on what is a very complicated problem...
...Elsewhere in his Journal Amiel had this to say about Americans: "They must win gold, predominance, power; crush rivals, subdue nature. They have their heart set on the means and never...think of the end...They are eager, restless, positive, because they are superficial. To what end all this stir, noise, greed, struggle...
...that their rifle cartridges were greased with a mixture of beef and hog fat: by the sanctions of religion, the use of beef fat was mortal offense to the Hindus among them, hog fat to the Mohammedans. Fanatics and profiteers, princes and foreign agents were also working overtime to stir up the sepoys. By the time Savage had it all deciphered, it was too late. The mutiny burst across Bengal, and hundreds of men, women & children were slaughtered before the British brought in enough reinforcements to crush it and execute the mutineers by cannonfire...
When rattle-tongued Washington society columnist Mary ("Molly") Van Rensselaer Thayer fell in love with the Air Force, she made it plain that she expected plenty of reciprocation. Though Molly writes all her copy lying in bed, her enthusiasms sometimes stir her to enormous exertions. As a foreign correspondent, she fell in love with the Balkans so vigorously that Communist Chieftain Ana Pauker gave her four interviews. When she went to South America, she fell in love with it, too, and promptly took a trip up the Amazon...
...magic in. In The Tempest, for instance, the plot is the tired old story about a nobleman, bilked of his estates, who takes refuge on a distant island, and mild revenge on his enemies when they are shipwrecked there. Yet in this common vessel, Shakespeare stirred a wizard's brew of steaming language and the rich juice of 30 years' experience; the mixture mulled, at the last stir of the action, into a fine philosophical poem...