Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when the Indians collided with the annual sheriffs posse rodeo parade. The drill team was dressed in old cavalry costumes, like the ones worn by the Indians' original oppressors. The resulting fracas left one policeman injured and 31 Indians under arrest. "These people are just trying to stir up trouble," says Councilman Jimmy Drake. "These parades could be caused by subversives, you know-Communists, for instance...
...decision making. Yet quite a few blacks are climbing up the corporate ladder. In central Indiana, where the Ku Klux Klan once marauded, three blacks have risen to high management positions at the Cummins Engine Co. of Columbus. There are so many black bankers in Atlanta that they scarcely stir much interest any more, though eyebrows lifted when William Allison, a black antipoverty administrator, was recently named to the prestigious board of the Coca-Cola Co. By the latest count, 72 blacks serve as board members of major U.S. corporations, including General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and IBM. Says Bradley Currey...
...every individual must take the consequence of a mistake if he attempts to stir up the body of a people to a revolt and should be disappointed...
...naval communication based on the long-range transmission of explosion waves under water. Director of Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory (now Lamont-Doherty) from 1949 to 1972, he logged thousands of miles aboard its research schooner Vema. In 1956 he and his colleague William Donn caused a stir with their theory that ice ages have come about cyclically and that the next supersnowfalls could be a mere 1,000 years away...
...existing educational institutions and proposed alternative "skill exchanges" and a vast communications network that would match young and old "students" with library resources, academic experts and nearby peers who were interested in the same subject matter. Naturally these recommendations for "informal" learning caused quite a stir in what Illich called "the education industry." Energy and Equity promises to be equally provocative...