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...geeminy, what a stir there is! What a calling of meetings! What an appointing of committees! What a furbishing up of swallowtail coats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: In the Shadow of Ai-Dagh | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...sprightly young political movement (resurgent Sicilian separatism) and one of Italy's most venerable criminal corporations (the Maffia) had got together to stir up trouble in Sicily for Premier Ivanoe Bonomi's somewhat rachitic Government. Always the separatists had had to make their trouble against odds. The Maffia was a powerful ally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Maffia | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...cracker with soup," queried Morley across the roaring Atlantic, "took some kale and landed in stir, what was going on?" Banker Auburn knew that a cracker was a Georgian, knew that kale was cash, and that stir was jail, but guessed that soup was also money. Corrected Professor Brogan happily: "High explosive for opening banks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Stumpers Across the Sea | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...Place III, suggesting the convolutions of a human brain. There was the shock of a swatch of blue sky seen through the gape of sun-baked bones, Pelvis III. There also were canvases which seemed to represent nothing whatsoever in nature: skillfully colored symbolic forms that were sure to stir the imaginations of most gallerygoers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Money Is Not Enough | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...Stir up, we beseech thee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Stir Up Sunday | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

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