Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats' Answer. The answers had a lovely sound. New York would have to hold a special mayoralty election at the same time as the elections for Governor and Senator. The Democrats could undoubtedly put a fresh, cooperative type of mayor into office. Better yet, they would stir up a big city vote, and with Tom Dewey already out of the gubernatorial race, might be able to re-elect Senator Herbert Lehman and put over their whole slate, from Governor on down...
...Vice President under the dark pink banner of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party, he conceded that he had made a "poor political move"-but he was "not apologizing" for it, nor would he now criticize the U.S.S.R. because "I don't want to say anything that might stir up another...
Missing after the "accident" was the truck's owner, Porfirio Ramirez, commission merchant and member of a prominent Dominican family. Although the wreck and Ramirez' disappearance caused a stir in the Dominican Republic, the outside world heard little about it until last week, when a committee of Dominican exiles delivered a petition to the United Nations office at Lake Success. The petition charged that Ramirez and his companions were murdered, asked the U.N. to investigate the case as a violation of human rights...
...revolver and forged passport into the raincoat of a quiet Englishman; from there to the end, everything is as generally predictable as hot weather in August. When the amnesia-fogged Englishman turns out to be a bishop mistaken for a killer, only the most cooperative thriller fan will stir in his hammock...
...taught them scraps of Latin. By 1630, "Thieves' Latin" had all but passed away, to be replaced by the cant which fathered U.S. gangster and hobo language-a rich mulligan of native ingredients peppered lightly with foreign words, e.g., booze from the Middle Dutch bus en (to tipple), stir from the gypsy stariben (a prison...