Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rhetoric caused even less of a stir than the specific proposals. Whether it was wild-card challenger William B. Cunningham or incumbent Kathleen L. Born, the candidates all seemed to be reading from the same scripts...
...Swedish wife. He read books, put idle thoughts to paper and played in a bridge club every Friday. She baked bread, tended garden and strolled into the nearby village of Champagne-Mouton on market day, tall and delicate, a sight so fair the mayor's tired old heart would stir. The Gold Creek met the Silver Creek near the Mallons' acreage, and all around, the gentlest breeze would set fields of sunflowers ablaze with waves of golden light...
...retirement. Then, early this year, he named Bill Keller, 48, a former foreign correspondent who won a Pulitzer for his coverage of the collapse of the Soviet Union, to replace Roberts this month. Though criticized in some quarters as having too similar a background to Lelyveld (and causing a stir internally because of his messy personal life: around the time of the promotion he had left his wife and adopted son for a British journalist who was pregnant with his child), Keller has received a good initial reception in the newsroom. His chief competition to succeed Lelyveld when he retires...
Among the many pieces of mail that Harvard sent out this summer, few caused as much of a stir as the flyer informing incoming first years that they would not be allowed to use halogen lamps in their dimly-lit Yard dorms...
...look out from under her bangs. The first time I met her, she needed a formal dress for an evening engagement with Prince Charles, so we went through the rails. We found a black dress that she looked great in, but it was quite revealing and created quite a stir. For the first time, she was seen as a glamorous person. She looked more grownup. She pushed the announcement of the national budget to the second page of the papers...