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Word: bestirred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some 125 black youths, apparently acting in unison, beat and robbed scores of patrons and gang-raped one woman. For a full hour, undermanned police outside the hall refused to intervene-on the incredible grounds that Cobo Hall had promised to provide its own security. When they finally did bestir themselves, they arrested 47 hoodlums; all have been released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: A Long, Hot Summer for Detroit | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...would like to offer that (1) when I go to dine at the Faculty Club I'll put on a jacket and tie; Dr. Mansfield at a House could take his off; (2) a professor with an English vocabulary of one hundred thousand words (I'm guessing) could bestir himself to learn ten or twenty more, "vogue" as they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTY STUDENT RELATIONSHIPS | 5/14/1975 | See Source »

...white voters may have been confused by the proliferation of candidates: in a two-man, black v. white race, they may turn out in significant enough numbers to defeat Jackson. Though 52.5% of Atlanta's population is black, only 49% of its registered voters are. If Massell can bestir apathetic white voters, and Jackson falters seriously with the blacks, the outcome could be a surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL BRIEFS: Jackson Weighs In | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

...happens, this is not the first astral presence to bestir West Point. The superintendent's mansion is said to be haunted by the ghost of an Irish cook named Molly. In the 1920s, moreover, a priest was summoned to a house on Professors' Row to exorcise a spirit that had sent two young servant girls screaming naked into the night. To outflank the new extraterrestrial presence, Bakken has declared Room 4714 off limits until Easter. Meanwhile, one upperclassman insists that the ghost has gone. How does he know? "I am a warlock," the cadet solemnly explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Phantom of the Point | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

...game is not yet over. Congress, which has several baseball bills languishing in committee, may finally bestir itself to deal with the obvious inequities in the reserve-clause system. If it does not, the players seem determined to gain concessions from the owners, either through collective bargaining before the start of next season or, if necessary, a strike. If another strike is indeed called, it might well last longer than the walkout over pensions that delayed the start of the current baseball season by 13 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Safe--Kind of | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

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