Word: stirrer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more familiar one: he was giving a series of lectures to raise money for the consumer cause, and in his talks he criticized Australian auto safety as five years behind U.S. standards. To this, Prime Minister William McMahon responded with a harrumph: "He's a paid pot stirrer...
...fixing bill through Parliament, but it was obvious to Australians that the real victor was the outspoken Hawke. "Bob Hawke has thrown a large stone into the middle of a stagnant pond," said a Melbourne businessman. A carpenter in Sydney put it more earthily: " Hawke's certainly a stirrer...
Other players have written "inside" books on baseball, yet none has created more of a furor than Bouton's "muck-stirrer," as one sportswriter calls it. The reason seems to be that players do not mind being knocked for their playing; it's talking about their playing around off the field that they object...