Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over France long lines formed outside city halls as thousands of new voters, urged on politically by the stir of conflict and prodded legally by the risk of a fine for failure to register, rushed to put their names on the polling lists. In the first four days, 1,200,000 new voters were recorded, and election fever gripped the nation. By week's end, 28 "national" parties and some 700 local "lists" had entered a total of 5,000 candidates for the Assembly's 622 seats...
...mulled over Nasser's request for a loan. It wanted guarantees that the dam was feasible, that Egyptian finance was stable, and that there would be no graft. Not until Russia recently charged forward with an offer of $300 million for the Aswan Dam did things begin to stir in Washington. The U.S. decided at last to underwrite the Egyptian investment...
...NAACP's "shot-gun slander," he continues, "produced the predictable result--the local citizens began to turn their condemnation from the murder of the Negro boy to the NAACP." But in spite of the irritation it knew it would arouse in the South, the NAACP continued to stir up the public, feeling that they had nothing to fear, since the Negro's situation could not get worse. The jury would not bring an effective conviction, the group felt, and a national awareness of the case would at least put Mississippi justice on public record...
Convalescing from writer's cramp after a marathon of autographing some 4,000 copies of the first volume of his memoirs in Kansas City, Harry S. Truman visited Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Asked if the second volume of his reminiscences, to be published next February, will stir up any fuss, jaunty Author Truman grinned: "I might have to go live in Timbuktu...
Nobody knows exactly how long ago the bagpipe was invented. In one incarnation it was known in Tutankhamen's Egypt and Plato's Greece. Nero had a passion for it. Its unnerving drones and belligerent skirls have been known to stir men's blood, their brains and, according to Shakespeare, their bladders.* It has led men into battle and lulled them to sleep. Last week it was the star attraction, when the Regimental Band, Massed Pipers, Drummers and Dancers of Her Majesty's Scots Guards made their first visit to Manhattan on a nine-week North...