Word: stirringly
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What made this situation unusual is that the accuser did not come to you privately but papered the campus with e-mails from afar. You apparently decided that the e-mails created a bit of a stir and made it a legitimate news story. Why? How could you? Allegations that are false when told to a handful of people do not become true when told to a thousand. And they become even more malicious. “All the news that is fit to print”—it is the last part of that slogan that...
...chocolate chips, and stir just to combine. Before portioning, scrape the bottom of bowl and combine butter-sugar mixture into rest of dough using a gloved hand. Portion out into plastic wrap...
While passage of the bill is almost certain, the prospect of wedding bells for gay and lesbian couples in the nation's capital will nonetheless almost certainly stir up political heat before the bill is passed, which under council rules probably wouldn't happen until December. Some Republicans in Congress, while acknowledging that they are powerless to block same-sex marriage in the capital, will probably still try. Congressman Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican who is the ranking GOP member of the subcommittee with oversight over Washington, says he intends to support any effort to block the bill...
...people who don’t wear promise rings). In my opinion, Meyer has chosen a strange vehicle to promote premarital celibacy, and in adopting the vampiric image, she’s failed, unsurprisingly, to erase the centuries-old associations and make it her own. Her vampires still stir the same strange Freudian conflation of sex and violence that has captured the attention of Americans since the Victorian era. What’s more, vampires are now being marketed to children, exposing them to content that was once intended for a much more mature, albeit repressed, audience. Meyer and many...
...that first generation of mixed-race marriages come of age, their moves to gain acceptance in society - like Lou's participation in the TV show - have exposed a deep-running vein of xenophobia in Chinese society. Last year, Ding Hui, a young man of African-Chinese ethnicity, caused a stir when he was called up to the national volleyball team, prompting much soul-searching about whether the athlete should be allowed to represent China alongside pure-blooded Chinese competitors. Eventually, Ding Hui did go on to play for the national team...