Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peace Plot." There were no signs that Hanoi was willing to respond, though a faint stir was caused by the Hanoi broadcast of an interview with South Viet Nam's National Liberation Front Leader Nguyen Huu Tho, "civilian" boss of the Viet Cong. Talking to Australian Journalist Wilfred Burchett, Tho said that the N.L.F. "must have its decisive place and voice in any political solution" of the war. Was Tho's wording one of those ephemeral "signals" that Washington is forever waiting for? Not likely, for the Tho-Burchett interview took place on Aug. 25, had been broadcast...
...teeth, Bing's reasoning is hard to fault. At least he seems to think so, and the splashy new Met monument in Lincoln Center provides dramatic supporting evidence. The swipes from his critics, the tantrums of his singers, the sour notes from his musicians, all fail to stir even a hemidemisemiquaver of irritation in his aplomb. Among the scores of appropriate quotations from operas that he uses for punctuation, Rudolf Bing likes best the line from the Flying Dutchman: "My ship is firm; it suffers no damage...
...yellow scarves and flashing bush knives had figured in every Congolese conflict since the Tshombe secession of 1960. Finally there was ex-General Mobutu's own Armee Nationale Congolaise, inefficient as fighters but at least loyal to his government. Fearful of disarming or disbanding the "Kats," who might stir up trouble back at home in Katanga, Mobutu stationed them alongside A.N.C. units in Stanleyville, 400 miles away, where a hostile population could not easily be aroused...
...hant, whose findings caused something of a stir in France when they were publicized recently in the Paris daily Le Monde, bases his conclusion on a study of both Roman historical references to crucifixions and reports by Nazi prison-camp survivors who saw the grisly method of killing carried out during World War II. Nailed to the cross by wrists and ankles, the victim, in a desperate struggle for breath, alternately shifted his weight from arms to legs until he slumped down utterly exhausted. With the body weight resting on the arms, the diaphragm could no longer expel carbon dioxide...
...which are opposing a bill, now in a Senate subcommittee, that would put stiffer federal limits on the import and sale of firearms. Bakal's work seems certain to become one of the most widely debated books of the year. The publisher, hoping that it will stir as much commotion as Silent Spring, Rachel Carson's polemic against insecticides, likes to call it Silent Springfield...