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...among good politicians a promise is a sacred thing. There was talk in the cloakrooms that if Joe Robinson were not appointed, no one else would be confirmed. If this was a bit fantastic, there remained the likelihood that by failure to appoint Joe Robinson, the President would stir up a bigger nest of hornets than he had by his Supreme Court bill...
...nervous breakdown as any human being ever suffered, said Prof. Liddell. Achilles "would lay his snout on the cover of the box, close his eyes and stand rigid, growling for a whole hour. In those hours even placing an apple on Achilles' nose failed to make him stir or eat. We believe that this experimental neurosis is caused by the equivalent of a human conflict situation...
...word from home. Like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Hale's short story continued to be read long after its immediate purpose was forgotten. More than half a million copies were printed in the U. S. and England. It was translated into Spanish and printed in Peru to stir patriotism in war against Chile. Succeeding generations saw The Man Without a Country done on the stage and screen. Last week a fashionable Manhattan audience was first to see it done as an opera...
...Nero's easygoing colonial administration had made him and his memory extremely popular in the East; the present government, with less flexible policies, was not. Varro's idea: to start the rumor that Nero had reappeared, then palm off his protege Terence as the revivified Emperor, thus stir up hornets for penny-pinching Cejonius. Varro knew it was a dangerous plan, decided to try it anyhow, to satisfy his revenge and political curiosity...
...company's continuing to be to the Bolivian Government what the Jews are to Hitler and the Trotskyites are to Stalin, an unnamed Standard Oil official at New York last week exploded: "Preposterous, utter, sheer nonsense! We would not raise a finger or lift a telephone receiver to stir up trouble in Bolivia." Meantime, with the Bolivian press crackling away at the yanqis, President Toro quietly transferred Standard Oil's confiscated refineries to the Government-owned Yacimientos Petroleros Fiscales, prepared to give them a new whirl...