Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Meaning. Hence Peking's propagandists harshly labeled the T'ien An Men riot "an organized, premeditated and planned counterrevolutionary political incident." Teng himself was not accused of having organized the incident. Nonetheless, said the official report to the Politburo, the unnamed organizers of the riots wanted to "stir up disorder in the whole country." In Peking and elsewhere, great prominence was given to the workers' militia rather than to the regular army as the group responsible for maintaining order. The militia, said the official press agency, "feared neither hardship nor death" in fighting the "class enemy." Significantly...
Earlier, steady Sally Roberts and Rita Funaro created a little stir themselves at second doubles, pulling out a hard-fought three-set victory in darkening conditions. Having lost the first set, 3-6, the veteran duo regrouped to snatch the next two sets...
Solzhenitsyn's doom-struck message created a stir. The Christian Science Monitor called the program a "time bomb" while the Wall Street Journal rated it "one of the most important pieces of TV journalism ever, and spellbinding besides." Still, most sober observers of world affairs are not likely to fall under his spell. Example: Sovietologist Richard Lowenthal has sorrowfully expressed his amazement at Solzhenitsyn's "utter disaccord with the facts of recent international history." Lowenthal points out that not all defeats for the West, as for instance in Indochina, are caused by surrender to the Soviet Union...
...Kissinger's tough talk on Cuba might be aimed partly at countering domestic critics who charge that he has been too soft on the Soviets in his pursuit of détente. In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee late last week, Kissinger tried to temper the stir created by his most recent pronouncements. He said: "There is no urgent situation at this moment that requires a crisis decision. But we want the Cubans and the Soviet Union to understand the consequences of their actions before any irrevocable decisions are made by them...
...remarks have been warmly received by Acting School Superintendent Vincent Reed and many teachers. But some of his listeners wonder: Can students, by an act of will, overcome chaotic family lives and schools with overworked teachers and inadequate equipment, textbooks and libraries? Jackson's answer is bound to stir hot arguments. "Nobody will save us from us," says...