Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last analysis, security and prosperity are states of mind otherwise known as contentment. Zealots and crackpots can stir up our economy . . . but they can't make anybody happy. Each person has to do that for himself...
Women had won their vote and promptly forgot about it. Harding moved into the White House, and the Dark Age of 'Cliffe politics began. They expressed no organized opinion on prohibition, no opinion on Harding, and apparently accepted prosperity as their lot. Even the depression failed to stir the girls back into action...
...film's failure stems mainly from a futile attempt to blend Actor Webb's amusingly smug, know-it-all characterization of Mr. Belvedere into a story intended to stir up some emotional warmth. The result is seldom comic and never moving; it leaves Webb without much material worthy of a Belvedere and the movie's would-be warmth without the kind of character that might ignite...
...Milan, sternly reminding the mayor of the ban on public assemblies. When Greppi told the Red delegation, "No meeting is authorized," he was vilified as a "coward and traitor." As they left, the comrades spat angrily on the city hall stairs. They were equally frustrated when they tried to stir up a street march. Scelba's celere (jeep-riding riot squads) dispersed them...
...Illinois, has something to say. One of the most respected of U.S. physicists, he played a key part in the wartime development of the atom bomb. In an article in the current Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Dr. Seitz issues a call to arms which has caused an extraordinary stir in scientific circles...