Word: stirring
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Though Barry contended that his decision was "related to my recovery" from an admitted dependence on alcohol and prescription drugs, another motive may have been to strike a deal with U.S. Attorney Jay Stephens. As his trial approached, Barry had gone to increasingly desperate lengths to stir up support among his mostly black constituents. At one point, he accused the Government of not only entrapping him but also actually trying to kill him with a potentially lethal dose of cocaine. He predicted that he could never be convicted because "in this town, all it takes is one juror saying...
First it was the Italians and the Jews. Now it is the Koreans. Each new group of immigrants has arrived in New York City scratching for a foothold. They open Mom and Pop stores in the cheapest neighborhoods and, as they succeed, stir the resentment of longtime residents who are often mired in poverty. South Korean immigrants now own 2,500 of the more than 3,000 fruit and vegetable stores in the New York City area. Blacks often resent the newcomers' ability to garner profits from their community. Differences in class and culture as well as stubborn myths have...
...here I am, writing the final edition of "Stir Frey" (which, by the way, is a name I absolutely hate) and trying to think of something serious to say. It's not easy...
...committee head stays up all night drafting a proposal. A student chooses to stay in on a Friday night, to use the extra time to write an "A" paper. A rower gets up at 6:30 a.m. to do hills before breakfast. All of these decisions are admirable, and stir a sense of self-pride in those who choose to make them. But one is not better than another...
President Bush made a point of playing up Dukakis' Harvard connections during the 1988 campaign in an attempt to stir up opposition to elitism among rural voters. Among the citizens of Fayette County with whom we lived and worked, we found no resentment toward our Harvard background...