Word: stirred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Part of that is due to Congress's pusillanimity--most lawmakers would prefer simply to go along with the president than dissent and stir up trouble. But Congress' powerlessness in war deliberations is exacerbated by loopholes in the War Powers Resolution that allow the president to avoid consulting legislators...
...Civil War ended 126 years ago, but the Stars and Bars can still stir racial tension in the old Confederacy. Three years ago, 14 black state legislators in Alabama were arrested for attempting to remove the Confederate flag, symbol of a slaveholders' rebellion, at the state capitol. In 1983 black students at the University of Mississippi succeeded in forcing the school to abandon the flag as its emblem...
...sure bet that Lee's outspoken style and some of his more controversial directorial moves--such as his stereotypical portrayal of two Jewish nightclub owners in "Mo' Better Blues"--will cause something of a stir on the sensitive Harvard campus...
...houses, including the president's, and to pay back more than $180,000 on the yacht, a charge that the school said was an accounting error. But Dingell, who has hyperbolically likened Stanford's deeds to the defense-contractor scandals of the 1980s, wants to use the transgressions to stir debate on the lack of accountability in the government-university relationship. "At a time when U.S. scientific efforts are falling behind," says Dingell, "to have research money spent frivolously is simply not acceptable...
...northwestern China in the 1920s. This vile old man has taken a young wife, Ju Dou (Gong Li), who is made a slave to his viciousness. In bed he gags and harnesses her and rides her like a donkey, and the night bleeds with her shrieks. But the degradations stir Ju Dou's willfulness and sensuality. Now she undresses before the avid eyes of Tianqing (Li Baotian), her husband's adopted son. By abandoning herself to him, she hopes to liberate the captive nation of her heart...