Word: astir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. "Somebody has filled 'em full of baloney," grumped Holifield. "You try to talk to them and they just repeat what they've been told." With demonstrations and proclamations-and also with moderate voices and measured argument-students across the nation are astir with a new enthusiasm, and in the process the anemic boredom voguish in the '50s has disappeared...
Gospel Singer Mahalia Jackson, 49, set off on a world concert tour, all astir over her first command performance-before Denmark's King Frederik IX in Copenhagen-and a scheduled audience with Pope John XXIII in Rome. Mahalia was even more anticipative about her subsequent pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Said the Baptist contralto: "That's the most important thing in my life-to walk the streets where our Lord once walked...
...middle class, which helped bring it to power, have long since become disenchanted. The Roman Catholic Church is stirring in opposition. The press has been silenced, but in the streets much vocal dissent is heard. Eco nomic problems have been postponed, not solved. And some kind of dissension is astir in the ranks of the leadership. Fidel...
...What about the future?" asked President Eisenhower in his televised report to the nation. Widespread in the U.S. was a sense of a future, a sense of changes astir. Just beyond the threshold of a new decade, the nation looked ahead to a presidential election. And it seemed unmis- takably clear that the events of the recent past, climaxing in the summit blowup, had brought important changes, that the future would be considerably different from the past, and not necessarily worse...
Borne by the airy hope of a draft at the Republican Convention, the hat of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller fluttered into the presidential ring once more. The first sign that Rocky's hopes were still astir was evident when he issued a loftily nonpartisan statement on the summit...