Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wicked aunts") and have logged long hours doing manual labor and running the streets. Even Headon, whose father was a headmaster and whose mother was a teacher, says, "I used to steal a lot and run with a gang," and figures he would be in stir today if he had not beat out 205 other drummers at a Clash audition. Out of the pieces of a shared precarious existence, the Clash has fashioned music of restless anger and hangman's wit, rediscovered and redirected the danger at the heart of all great rock. - Jay Cocks
...Then she was hit with disseminated lupus erythematosus, a severe disease that could be kept at bay only with drugs and a straitened, cautious existence. She went home and wrote as hard as her reduced energy would permit. Two novels and a volume of short stories created a critical stir. In 1964 she was readying a second book of stories for publication when the lupus flared up and killed...
...Vorster Library: Two syllables are catchier than three. Despite obvious hurdles, this name has promise. Like an effigy, it stands as an object of political antipathy. Such a symbol could stir students of politics to new heights of democratic dissent. Politicians are doomed to forget; the wrath and indignation inspired by a Vorster library would soon cool. In time, "Vorster" might reel off the tongue provoking as little thought of genocide as, say, "Custer...
...years ago," she said. "Now we are a large group of less involved people, which can lead to conflicts among the few who are very active." In the absence of the political direction provided by a national race, Artson says he will try to create special committees to stir up interest in Democratic causes around the University...
...resigned this month as Premier Menachem Begin's adviser on Arab affairs with the warning that Israel "will be making a fateful mistake if it does not act energetically to reduce the level of hostility." Begin's government, fearful that the Islamic revival in Iran might stir up Israel's Arabs, appears to have taken a different approach to the problem. Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan issued an unmistakable warning: "We are not the Shah of Iran nor are we foreign rulers. If [Israeli and West Bank Arabs] try to replace Israel with an Arab-Islamic concept, they...