Word: stirred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wallace's opponent, State Senator Ryan deGraffenried, 37, assured the electorate that he was as good a segregationist as the next man. But Wallace's intemperance, he charged, would only stir up violence and chaos. Cried he: "It's been the same pattern in every state where you have a loudmouth, rabble-rousing Governor. They have brought the walls of segregation tumbling down on their heads...
...fine that we can stir the thing up again, but let's do it with scientific facts, and by talking to people, and not with smokescreens in the Scientific American, the Boston Traveler, or the CRIMSON...
...world of opportunity the South cannot match. And while jobless Negroes in the North will resent the jobs so ostentatiously offered the newcomers from New Orleans, most of the jobs given them so far have been positions which Northern Negroes would not have been permitted to fill. The public stir attending the migrants helps them break into Northern occupations and places which have, up to now, excluded the black...
...strength of his primary showing and conservative platform, Connally is favored to win the June 2 runoff; one person who will do his best to see that he does is Vice President Lyndon Johnson, whose power at home hangs on a Connally victory. Yarborough tried to stir support by challenging Connally to a television debate. Connally cannily turned down the dare, whereupon Yarborough exploded: "The great Governors of the past, such as Sam Houston, Jim Hogg and Jimmy Allred. would have never placed their tails between their legs and slunk away from the challenge...
...eared formula for Irish comic fiction: to one seedy slice of life from an impoverished Irish boyhood add one outrageous old character who swears a blue streak, acts like a freak, and is lovable as all get out. Stir in plenty of Irish whisky, a peck of troubles, assorted downtrodden womenfolk, a hard-drinking priest, plenty of disputatious talk about the church...