Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Civil Rights Commission can only listen, watch and "submit reports" to the President. But last week the group went the limit with a "special report" that caused quite a stir...
...British visitors' four-day stay made little stir in West Germany as a whole, but their presence worked like champagne on the aristocracy's battered morale. In a society where most bluebloods feel that they are displaced personages (there hasn't been a Kaiser since 1918), the Romantik of a royal visit is rare indeed...
Once again, by any innuendo he could conceive, or any indiscretion in Washington he could seize on, Diefenbaker tried to stir up anti-Americanism, a brew not so effective as it once was, but still heady. "Nobody pushes Canada around," he warned, especially not a nation that took 27 months longer than Canada to enter the Second World War. The Toronto Star accused him of talking like "some alcoholic patriot in a tavern...
...Crystal City Mexicans did stir up trouble for themselves. They control the town's government, but the Anglos control its economy. One council-seat winner got fired from his job in a hardware store. Another found his wages cut in half by his Anglo employer. But, mindful that Mexicans outnumber Anglos in South Texas, PASO looks upon the Crystal City election as a momentous triumph. Says Albert Fuentes, the PASO official who led the campaign: "We have done the impossible. If we can do it in Crystal City, we can do it all over Texas. We can awake...
...been valued at $85,000. How many others have been found is something of a mystery. One local rumor suggests that many are picked up but to avoid income tax are not reported. A contrary rumor holds that the field is sometimes salted with rough diamonds to stir up tourist interest. A third rumor whispers that Arkansas would be a major diamond producer if an international diamond combine had not managed somehow to block every attempt to work the deposits by large-scale mining methods...