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Word: stirs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Insult to All. Because Communist chieftains are so eager to see division in the West, they tend to overestimate both the width of the fissures they detect and their ability to widen them with ploys, threats and propaganda. Crude Communist efforts to stir division within the U.S. or between the U.S. and its allies often have the opposite effect of fostering a more determined unity. Inevitably, Khrushchev's attack on President Eisenhower rebounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COLD WAR: Calculated Thrust | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...greatest of the few absolute monarchs left on earth has come out-in his own fashion-for democracy. Two years ago, towering, half-blind King Saud of Saudi Arabia, deep in debt in an oil-rich nation, beset by Nasser's efforts to stir up trouble inside the country, was compelled to call upon his more vigorous and cultivated brother, Crown Prince Feisal, to take charge of the country, save its finances, and restore its prestige in the Arab world. Since then, the treasury has been built up, and the throne has not been embroiled in the intrigues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: The Slightly Democratic King | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

...plane were 79 other Europeans cleared for immigration into the U.S., including a biochemist, whose entry into the U.S. was being sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences in Washington. In recent years tens of thousands of immigrants like the Suritis had streamed through New York, causing little more stir than an 8:04 commuter train coming from Long Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: One in a Million | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...Stir Crazy. In Vancouver, B.C., after being relieved of $20 worth of coffee spoons per month. Do Xut House Co-Owner George Piekarske decided to put an end to the pilfering once and for all, drilled nice big holes into the bowls of all his spoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 23, 1960 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

Ford, which under Henry II's grandfather spent a lot of time and money trying to foist Ford's singular economic and political views on employees and the general public, has become a leader among U.S. industries in its nonpartisan efforts to stir more interest in politics. Its Civic and Governmental Affairs Office, set up in 1950, was one of the first of a series of political-education programs established by such firms as General Electric, American Can Co., Aerojet-General and Gulf Oil. The company not only urges its workers and executives to run for public office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Politics at Ford | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

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