Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court's power to determine whether the committee asked Wilkinson to testify because he possessed facts about communism in Atlanta, or simply because he has made known his bitter opposition to its existence. Wikinson was, after all, a stranger in the city who had come there to stir up opposition to the committee. On the face of it, it does not seem probable that he would know much about communists in Atlanta. Yet when Stewart says it is not the business of the Court to "speculate" about the motives of the committee, he ignores the very real possibility that...
...April, perhaps tightening expense-account allowances and chucking the $50 exemption on dividend income. But the Treasury will not be ready with any sweeping proposals for many months. After they are submitted. Mills will hold extensive committee hearings, aiming to create the climate of public opinion needed to stir Congress to action. With luck and massive help from the President, a new tax bill might have a chance in Congress next year...
...Kenneth F. W. Prior calls his preaching evangelism, the quiet religious spirit of this witty Englishman is far removed from the frantic dogmatism of Bible Belt fundamentalism. Visiting for a week under the auspices of the Harvard Christian Fellowship, he is not trying to gain 'converts' but rather to stir apathetic students to inquire into their religious-or atheistic-beliefs. He feels American and British "come from the same stock and tend to be slow-moving," and thinks they need prodding...
President Kennedy's action last fortnight in ordering Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke to rewrite almost completely a speech that minced no words about Russia brought press growls from several quarters. Said the New York Daily News: "Such suppressions can only stir up rumors, gossip and exaggerated guesses as to what the muzzled persons would say if permitted to talk...
...Should the U.S. seem in danger of losing the debate on representation, Ambassador Stevenson could validly argue that the question belonged in the U.N.'s "important" category, requiring a two-thirds majority. Such a move might well stir up neutralist efforts to allow both Chinese governments in the U.N.-a prospect that equally horrifies Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung, but has plenty of U.N. backing in the Afro-Asian bloc...