Word: stirred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flurry of appeasement, the city council voted $500,000 for paving streets in the Mexican section. Prominent Anglo citizens took every Mexican council candidate aside and tried to talk him out of running. "We've always got along," said one Anglo. "Why do you want to stir up this sort of trouble...
Some of them suggest that Soviet Premier Khrushchev may be trying to stir up new trouble by pressing unacceptable demands on the West...
Last November the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir caused quite a stir by publishing One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch the first novel of an obscure mathematics teacher and former Red Army officer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Released with the express permission of Premier Khrushchev, One Day is a powerful, often humorous account of life in Stalin's forced labor camps. Translator Max Hayward, among others, hailed the novel as a "literary masterpiece" when it was published in the West several months later...
...city from which journalists are always fading into the desert for weeks at a time, the prolonged absence of a correspondent seldom creates much of a stir. But last week Philby's disappearance had become the subject of international investigation and was rattling a twelve-year-old skeleton in the closet of Britain's Foreign Office. For Philby had been accused in the House of Commons of being the "third man" in the 1951 defection to Russia of Communist Spies Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess...
...comfortable income of ?2,000 a year "was betraying his class if he employed fewer than six women servants and five menservants; middle-class ladies in their 90s could boast that they had never made a pot of tea in their lives, a wealthy Englishman had a Frenchman to stir his soup, another Frenchman to comb his hair, an Italian to make his pastry, and half a dozen Englishmen to iron his Times, and his wife had a Frenchwoman to powder her back and an Englishman to carry her prayer book...