Word: astir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needed to, racked up the most lopsided victory (66.4% of the votes) ever recorded in a Missouri senatorial election. His hard race seemed proof that the Symington-for-President boomlet in 1956, when Missouri's convention delegation voted for him as a favorite son, had set presidential ambitions astir...
North Africa is in rebellion, black Africa is astir; dictators fell in Latin America, but though in each case Communists intrigued, they have nowhere prevailed...
Just across the Congo River from Leopoldville sits Brazzaville (pop. 86,000), capital of French Equatorial Africa, which has been astir with De Gaulle's promise of autonomy. Kasavubu began to dream of reviving the fabled 14th century kingdom of the Congo, combining territories now French, Belgian and Portuguese. After his election as one of Léopoldville's commune burgomasters in 1957, he had himself declared "Supreme Leader" by his followers, and began receiving homage seated on a leopard skin, symbol of tribal supreme power. Meanwhile, the rival Bangalas also began organizing, and the bush telegraph began...
...tempest churned up by the sandalwood fans in Saigon has rustled palm fronds and stirred feminine emotions across the land. Last week all Saigon was astir with the story of Co Ha, an 18-year-old maiden of Going Ving, a thatched-hut village 40 miles southwest of the capital...
...Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum on upper Fifth Avenue, which after three years rivals Town Hall as the city's leading recital hall. Taken all together, New York's out-of-the-way music-comparable to the busy off-Broadway theater-keeps the city astir with the ferment of new musical ideas. Some of the unusual and relatively new groups at work in Manhattan this season...