Word: astir
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...White House's big, high-ceilinged rooms were astir with all the pleasant bustle of a holiday weekend. Margaret was back from her concert tour...
Senator Taft, who will be faced by both friends and foes at the Faculty's noon repast, has set political dopesters astir in recent weeks by his repeated appearances on the same platform with Harold E. Stassen, only avowed Republican presidential candidate and former Governor of Minnesota...
...distraction. In its progression, elaboration and somber irony, his prose rarely loses for long the immediate visual impact of phrases such as the one describing Kurtz, emaciated yet commanding, sitting up to harangue the natives in Heart of Darkness: "I could see the cage of his ribs all astir, the bones of his arm waving...
Last week Waterloo was astir with the biggest local news in 25 years. By state order, the school had been shut down...
...tight little valley high in the Andes, the 400-year-old capital city of Quito (pop. 174,000) was astir with a new kind of bustle. Its Conservative mayor, tall, thin Jacinto Jijén y Caamano, 57, was making things hum. He had talked President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra into borrowing $4,000,000 in Washington to build the city's first aqueduct since Inca times. Said Mayor Jijén (pronounced "he-hone"): "This summer, for the first time, Quito will have water...