Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your ghost inseparable from my shadow As long as your daughter's words can stir a candle. She could hardly tell us apart in the end. Your portrait, here, could be my son's portrait...
...wants, elected officials stand ready to provide. When voters' wishes are unclear, or when much of the public simply doesn't care, special interests have more opportunity to get their way. But when they do, it's often less because of any contributions than because of their ability to stir passionate supporters to the polls...
...since 1994, a moderate, pro-choice state assemblyman. But a furious Bauer ponied up $100,000 for an ad campaign that zings Firestone for his refusal to back a ban on partial-birth abortions and promotes instead the more conservative underdog, state assemblyman Tom Bordonaro. (The ads created a stir when local network affiliates refused to run them, saying they described the procedure too graphically.) The Firestone-Bordonaro infighting has been so damaging that some Republicans fear that Lois Capps, the sole Democrat in Tuesday's open primary, could top 50% in the three-way race and take the once...
...rover helped confirm scientists' suspicion that Mars was once a warm, wet place, possibly able to support life. After four months of work, the lander and rover succumbed to Mars' punishing cold. Now and then, however, when the sun is high in the Martian sky, the rover may stir, toddling aimlessly as it waits for earthly signals that will never come...
...would stir himself into a state of lasting disgust at the Marv Albert backbiting assault and underwear case, when one felt certain that Marv would (as he did) show up on Larry King, Letterman and Today to seek redemption by exposure? There was an exchange on the Today interview with Katie Couric that could be read as the clarifying moment of the entire century, let alone the past year, when Couric asked Marv why anyone should believe his version of the sordid events when he had already admitted lying to his former wife and fiance. Albert said, in effect, that...