Word: rouser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drugstore instead of going to Mass. She was the one with the sense of humor, memorizing the candy-on-a-speeded-up-conveyor-belt episode from I Love Lucy; the one who was tone-deaf but couldn't care less, belting out Cross Over the Bridge, the Patti Page rouser, at top volume...
...into apathy or pin their hopes on samozvantsy -- the numerous pretender czars of Russian history who rose out of nowhere to challenge the powers that be. Yeltsin donned this historic mantle when he led his populist crusade against Gorbachev. Now Yeltsin must be careful that no golden-tongued rabble rouser gathers throngs of the disenchanted for a new march on the Kremlin...
...along smash, Achy Breaky Heart, the ladies wilt. In three months Cyrus, 30, has rocketed from nowhere (or the nearest thing: Flatwoods, Ky.) to No. 1 on the pop charts. Is this Elvis? Bruce? Actually, neither. Aside from Achy Breaky, Cyrus has only one memorable song -- the sour-grapes rouser Could've Been Me -- on his Some Gave All debut album. And even now he could use a charisma injection. But, hell, let Billy Ray enjoy his nine-days'-wonder status. It's nine days more than most people...
...rally earlier this month, Nader urged fellow revolutionaries to "break that vise of authoritarian control over the University." And while chastising the University's seven-member governing Corporation, rabble-rouser Tony McLean wondered, "How the hell can a so-called democratic institution like Harvard University consider the voices of 18,000 less important than that of seven...