Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Impy's victory was a stunning blow to Boss Flynn, who had engineered Mayor O'Dwyer's resignation in the ill-founded hope that a special city election might stir up a big enough straight Democratic vote to sweep the whole state. Big Jim Farley, out of favor since Flynn got control, had backed Impy. The new mayor, who promptly announced that he was going to go back to being a Democrat, swore that he would stay "unbossed and uncontrolled" and be "mayor for all the people...
...board who invariably wants to "throw the book" at someone ("He wouldn't know any other use for a book," says Hall). He is bothered by his budget ("Our sinking fund is going down for the third time"), and by the town gossips who are trying to stir up a scandal about a young English professor and a coed...
When a lance corporal proclaimed, "I would rather go to prison than shave my head," the Communist organ Rovnost cautioned Czech soldiers to guard against whispering campaigns "which try to stir up rumors about alleged concentration camps in the barracks...
During Manhattan's bitter, bloody garment strike of 1913, a crowd of angry strikers hurled bricks through the windows of the Jewish Daily Forward, which was urging a settlement. Nervy, frail Editor Abraham ("Ab") Cahan, who had done as much as any man to stir the workers' rebellion against the sweatshops, came out to face the crowd. "Whose windows do tailors come to break?" he demanded. "It's just like a husband who comes home angry and fretful ... whacks the kids around and smashes dishes . . . Will he go into any other house to smash the dishes...
...morning of Korea, LeMay didn't wait for the Pentagon to stir. He got. on the wire with the commanders of his air forces: the Second, Eighth and Fifteenth. He ordered in Major General Emmett O'Donnell, boss of the Fifteenth at March Field. For two days, while SAC was in the dark on Washington's plans, the staff pored over their own top-secret intelligence on North Korean targets. "Rosie" O'Donnell's B-29s were loaded with flyaway kits, holding enough spare engines and parts to keep them flying for 30 days until...