Word: fomenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...able to seize supreme power, Trotsky declares that, during Lenin's last and protracted illnesses, the present dictator organized a veritable camarilla of self-seekers who conspired secretly against Trotsky (Lenin's logical successor) and took advantage of the fact that Trotsky himself was often ill to foment against him an opposition so strong that when Lenin died Oppositionist Stalin was able gradually to oust Trotskyists from their posts and finally to seize the government...
Thus far the Indian Council of State (upper house) has voted co-operation with Sir John; but the Indian Legislative Assembly (lower house) has rebuffed him completely; and all throughout the spring and summer malcontents have tried to foment an Indian boycott of British goods...
...restriction on the sale of spirits, wines or beer exists in Czechoslovakia;* but at Prague one Michael Maresch, picturesque anti-prohibition zealot, publishes a magazine quaintly devoted to urging Czechoslovak citizens of the U. S. to foment anti-prohibitionist sentiment among their neighbors...
...stirred Budapest, last week, when it became known that Bela Kun had been found lurking in Vienna, only 140 miles distant, and arrested by the Austrian police. Among his effects were found documents and pamphlets suggesting that he was again being employed by the Third International of Moscow to foment Communist uprisings in Hungary. When arrested Propagandist Kun was found to have put on weight and grown a mustache; but he was dressed characteristically in the height of fashion and reeked of his favorite perfume, wood violet...
...Admiral Plunketts and their British prototypes allowed free rein, the eventuality becomes possible. In 1908, it has been pointed out, Winston Churchill found the possibility of Anglo-German hostilities incredible; now twenty years later the same is logically time of the present situation. Let the two countries in a foment of patriotism be awakened to a mutual distrust, and immediately their circles of honor will widen. Clouds will gather over the mountains that were molehills: rumour will be bandiod about once more in the streets: and the papers will play the overture to another stupid tragedy...