Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wilde for suing the Marquis of Queensberry for libel when he referred (accurately) to the poet's homosexuality; Schiller by the Duke of Württemberg after the stir caused by his social criticism in The Robbers...
...field in a seemingly hopeless, idealistic action that pitted an almost unarmed nation of a million people against the might and power of 650 million Red Chinese. Alone in the mountain-locked fastness of their native land, Tibetans-like the Hungarians before them in 1956-could expect to stir the sympathy of the free world, but they could hardly count on any real help from it. Red repression in Lhasa coulu be even more brutal than in Budapest-for who would know what had been done? The single radio signal that intermittently flashes out to New Delhi from the Indian...
...turned out, against his wishes-began making counter plans. It put British troops in Kenya on a six-hour alert, flew in transport planes from Cyprus and Singapore. If an emergency had to be policed in Nyasaland, reasoned London, better outside troops than Rhodesian vigilantes, whose presence would stir the fears and emotions of the blacks...
...speech, relations between the two Premiers became a contest in coldness. In such a contest, Harold Macmillan, who prides himself on his "unflappability," was at no disadvantage. At a British embassy reception the night after Khrushchev's speech, while Mikoyan was praising his master for the stir he had created, Macmillan publicly remarked: "This is an extraordinary method of diplomacy." At luncheon next day Macmillan addressed only two stiffly formal remarks to Khrushchev. At the Bolshoi Ballet the two men sat side by side without speaking throughout an entire performance of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. And when...
...will not have their usual urgency when Lemus comes to town. The planter-army oligarchy that runs El Salvador makes certain that no leftist ideologies nourish. Sound money policies and a balanced budget keep the currency stable at 2½ colons to the dollar. But Lemus will try to stir up investor interest, both governmental and private...