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...stir up the mud. Help us on both sides of the Atlantic to see and think clearly. Sir, there is only one war: Christendom v. Communism. The present controversy in the Middle East is but one reflection of it. Every statement that blurs the issue is a blow for Communism. Confusion favors Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...while the Dewey-Roosevelt presidential election passed by almost unnoticed, war events did stir up interest. When the Allies landed in Normandy on May 6, 1944, thoughts immediately turned toward victory. On the other hand, Nock remembers that the air was charged with "a quite astonishing gloom when the Bastogne Battle began...

Author: By Lewis M. Steel, | Title: College Life During World War II Based on Country's Military Needs | 12/7/1956 | See Source »

...force is in a position to assume effectively the tasks assigned to it." Privately, however, Lloyd began explaining to his U.N. colleagues that Britain was in fact determined to get out of Egypt as soon as possible and that continuing U.N. pressure for "immediate" withdrawal would only serve to stir up British national pride to such an extent that the Eden government might be forced to delay matters in order to save its skin. And in a final conciliatory burst, Britain sought to placate the Assembly by announcing that withdrawal of one battalion from Port Said would begin before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Who Must Obey? | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...Band will try to stir up pre-game football spirit tonight at 8 p.m. with a concert and rally on the steps of Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Plans Yard Rally; Police Ready for Trouble | 11/23/1956 | See Source »

...Guest Stir. In Dallas, Jailbird Bobby Calhoun showed up masked on Confession, a local TV show, complained that he could not go straight because "police pick me up every time they see me," was arrested five days later when cops searched the trunk of his car, found part of a stolen safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 12, 1956 | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

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