Word: stirred
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...Cairo, when 1,000 Palestinian policemen are scheduled to arrive in the Gaza Strip and Jericho as Israeli troops pull out. An additional 8,000 police will gradually be deployed. The P.L.O. is expected to make great fanfare out of the arrival of the first police in order to stir up public enthusiasm for self-rule. Spirits have been soured by the slow-moving negotiations as well as by tight restrictions locking out Palestinians who work in Israel, imposed after 13 Israelis died in suicide bombings by Palestinians seeking revenge for the February massacre of worshippers at a Hebron mosque...
...rejection came amid rumors that Beys planned to "stir up friction" at this Sunday's meeting, according to an executive board member...
...Nuremburg and recorded a stunning experience. The long-awaited arrival of Adolf Hitler threw the crowd into a frenzy. Screams of delight mounted to a ferver pitch as the man drew nearer, until the surging mass of the people gave way to utter hysteria. Rougemont felt something uncontrollable stir within him--the thrill of mass hysteria--and so powerful was the feeling that he almost succumbed. But something withing him rebelled. Ionesco relates Rougemont's story with curiosity in his notes from November 1960; "just then it was not his mind that resisted, not arguments formulated in his brain...
...campus relatively at peace With itself means that it cannot justify its organizational existence. Last we stir up conflict for publicity's sake. Crimson headlines bleat: "HMS Saves Yard from Riots It Started." I say to Dean Epps, "Let's diversify our interests...
Winona Ryder's unpredictable acting is at its worst in "the House of the Spirit." Love scenes between Pedro and Blanca are meaningless; true passion is completely absent in their relationships. Pedro's attempts at fiery speeches intended to stir the peasant workers into revolt are equally uninspired, and we are left to puzzle over this sudden attempt at a political message...