Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Churchill gave it breath in summoning the Old World to "make a kind of United States of Europe." In 1947, the Marshall Plan began to give it bone and sinew. In 1950, with the Schuman Plan to pool the Continent's coal-and-steel resources, it began to stir. It envisioned nothing less than a prosperous united Europe athwart one Atlantic littoral, allied with the U.S. on the other side-two giants whose joint democratic and humane stand for freedom everywhere would be more than a match for Communism...
...that took it within a scant 21,000 miles of Venus (TIME, Jan. 4, 1963), the telescope's short as cent seems puny indeed, and it cost the sponsoring Air Force an insignificant $100,000. But the data it collected before it parachuted back to Earth promises to stir up a lively astronomical argument. Mariner confirmed earlier radiotelescope observations and reported that the Venusian surface is far too hot and dry to support any Earth-type life. The flying telescope got a vastly different slant. After careful analysis, says Hopkins Balloon Astron omer John Strong, he is convinced that...
...INDIVIDUALISM OF GIL EVANS (Verve). Evans, revered arranger for Claude Thornhill and Miles Davis, gathered a platoon of excellent musicians to stir musical colors with him (in The Barbara Song, El Toreador). The orchestration is sensuously full of woodwinds and French horns, and the arrangements so complex that they invite close listening...
...insight and sensitivity of its content should do much to stir up the consciences of medical men as well as of people of all religions to face their obligations at the time of others' death. Few people in their secret hearts want to die alone...
Marriage Album. Everything had the power to stir Picasso's imagination. He kept owls, pigeons, even a smelly he-goat around the house. He loved to blow loudly on an old French army bugle. He was superstitious to a degree unsuspected in such an undisciplined liberal thinker. A hat thrown on a bed (meaning that someone in the house was going to die before the year was over) could throw him into a tantrum. Dancing was total depravity to Picasso, who was otherwise unbothered by convention...