Word: stirringly
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...sight and smell of fresh fish blood in the street don't stir your feelings of yuletide cheer, then chances are you're not Czech. For 'tis the season when the streets of Prague are filled with stands selling carp, a staple of the Bohemian holiday table, served breaded and fried with potato salad. Many folks buy their fish live and kill it at home. More squeamish celebrants have it gutted for them...
...still a mystery, but no one is better qualified to sift through the widely scattered clues than McGovern, a skilled scientific sleuth who wields the most powerful tools of modern chemistry in his search for the roots of ancient wines. In 1996, for example, his lab created a stir by finding dried traces of wine in 7,500-year-old jugs that hailed from the Zagros Mountains of present-day Iran. A few years later his lab identified some of the key constituents in a funerary feast held in about 700 B.C. in honor, some think, of King Midas...
...Mafia presence in Sicily. So when a videotape surfaced last week allegedly showing a government minister holding a fistful of cash to his forehead, uttering "money isn't God, but by God, it's no less than God" and promising his benefactor mining concessions, it created a stir in the press?but nowhere else. Environment and Forests Minister Dilip Singh Judeo first issued an outright denial, then resigned but maintained his innocence, then admitted accepting money but compared himself to Mohandas Gandhi, saying he needed the funds for a struggle to save India from a shadowy international Christian conspiracy...
...sent the e-mail out over House lists not to stir things up. We just wanted a diversity of opinion on the subject for our project,” Salazar said. “We knew if only our friends participated, it would not be as interesting...
...Gore Gourmand? Director Quentin Tarantino's new film, Kill Bill Vol. 1 [MOVIES, Oct. 20], has caused a stir for its violent scenes. But for those who have followed Tarantino's celluloid antics for years, the graphic aggression runs true to form. When Pulp Fiction came out nine years ago, we summed up the director's forceful style...